Linked by pas de calais on Wed 13th May 2009 01:27 UTC
"Over time, many people have complained about the X Window system; the X Window system, or Xorg in its current most popular implementation, is the layer between applications and the graphics adapter. It has some fantastic features (like the ability to run application over the network) and some shortcoming.
One thing is sure: it has evolved over the last year or so, immensely, especially as far as 3D and hardware acceleration."
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Member since:2008-10-28
vnc still needs an X server running on the remote machine
No, VNC is the remote server. So much that on UNIX it can't even hijack the standard desktop (Display :0) by default. You set it up with a small configuration file where you decide what window manager to run (the simpler, the better) and a few basic X clients -- and maybe even set it up to run in 8 or 16 bit color mode to generate less network traffic and obtain better performance. Then again, the goal is getting the job done rather than eye candy.
Reece
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And the other options are also less great:
NX is not installed by default,
vnc still needs an X server running on the remote machine
NX is not installed by default,
vnc still needs an X server running on the remote machine
apt-get install freenx?
yum install freenx?
NX is absolutely fantastic for high latency and/or low bandwidth connections.
VNC is OK over a WAN. It is not sensitive to latency like the standard X protocols. But it is noticeably slower than NX, and the video quality is not nearly as good unless you have a pretty fast connection. Both work equally well over a LAN. But there, the simplicity of using regular X is preferable. Unless the clients are Windows clients, in which case VNC or NX can be more straightforward. (Saves a Cygwin installation, or purchase of a commercial server.)
Edited 2009-05-15 13:42 UTC
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2005-07-06
from wikipedia:
In computing, LBX, or Low Bandwidth X, was a protocol to use the X Window System over network links with low bandwidth and high latency. It was introduced in X11R6.3 ("Broadway") in 1996, but never achieved wide use. It was disabled by default as of X.Org Server 7.1, and was removed for version 7.2.
And the other options are also less great:
NX is not installed by default,
vnc still needs an X server running on the remote machine
with X over SSH, I can use remote X clients from, for example, an ubuntu server without a GUI, and show them on my windows desktop. x over ssh is great, but slow. my experience with DSL is that it is still too slow, so X over SSH needs work.