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Re: X server for WinNT
There is also an Exceed from Hummingbird. I'm not sure if it available
for free.
Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> Shachar Tal writes:
>
> > > > VNC is slow. very slow.
> > >
> > > Slow??? Comparing to what exactly??? I use it instead of Xceed and
> > > Xcursion, and I can testify it runs faster on my local net.
> >
> > Slow compared to X, or better, low bandwidth X. Last time I used VNC, it
> > was using roughly 600KBps to view an NT desktop on my linux X server. X
> > takes much, much less bandwidth. LBX is fairly fast on a modem connection.
> >
> > As for it being an X server, last time I used it, it was sending my NT
> > desktop pixel by pixel, essentially, to my X server.
>
> VNC may be slow, but at least it *works*. The only free X server for
> NT that I'm aware of is Mi/X, and after working with it a bit I can
> say that it is not useful. It is marginally usable with its own window
> manager (twm), and when you try a bit more usable window manager from
> your Linux machine it crashes and/or displays incorrectly. Since Eran
> needs X through his own LAN, which is probably not very saturated
> anyway, VNC should be quite OK.
>
> --
> Alex Shnitman
> alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il
> http://alexsh.hectic.net
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