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SubjectRe: replacing X Window System !
Döhr, Markus ICC-H wrote:

>>>Although one has to admit that working with remote X
>>>
>>>
>>terminals over a
>>
>>
>>>SSH/WAN/VPN-connection is far from usefull, [...]
>>>
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>>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.
>
>
It is not that bad. I tried starting firefox on a machine 20km away,
using a 5Mbps ADSL link from the "wrong" end. (I ssh'ed into
my home pc from work.)
Firefox started in 55s, not 3min. Still bad, but that is a firefox
problem, not a generic X-tunneling problem. I can start the
lyx word processor in 3s over the same link, and have decent
performance while using it too.

Helge Hafting
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