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	<Markus.Doehr@siegenia-aubi.com>
To: "'Peter Gordon'" <codergeek42@gmail.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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.


-- 
Markus
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