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Re: X server for WinNT



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.


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Alex Shnitman
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