Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750708AbWEVKMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 06:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750710AbWEVKMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 06:12:42 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:43650 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750708AbWEVKMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 06:12:41 -0400 Message-ID: <44718DE0.7030508@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:09:36 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?IkTDtmhyLCBNYXJrdXMgSUNDLUgi?= CC: "'Peter Gordon'" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1238 Lines: 36 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, [...] >>> >>> >>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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/