Messages in this thread | | | From | "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" <> | Subject | RE: replacing X Window System ! | Date | Sat, 20 May 2006 02:57:55 +0200 |
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> > Although one has to admit that working with remote X > terminals over a > > SSH/WAN/VPN-connection is far from usefull, [...] > You can tunnel just about anything X11 over SSH/VPN/etc.; even things > like a whole desktop GUI; not just plain X terminals.
Did you actually do that? Starting Firefox over a 6 Mbit VPN takes about 3 minutes on a FAST machine. That´s not acceptable - our users want (almost) immediate response to an application, to clicking and waiting 10 seconds until the app is doing something.
> > However, there´s NX (http://www.nomachine.com/) and > > other products but out of the box X11 it´s quite slow over > higher latency > > connections. > One good way to reduce latency (at least when using X11 over SSH) is > to tell SSH to compress its connection tunnel ("ssh -C ..."). >
Yes, this will start Firefox (as an example) down to 2 minutes 15 seconds and put additional compression/decompression load on the system. We go for AIP right now (Sun Secure Global Desktop), there you have the feeling as if you were sitting in front of the box.
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