Debian Enterprise (not a Starfleet metaphor)

[Karsten M. Self]

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on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:45:49PM -0800, Nick Moffitt (nick@zork.net) wrot=
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> begin  Karsten M. Self  quotation:
> > Try LTSP?
>=20
> What kind of magic does it take to pull all the suck out of remote X?
> Since we've had a major hardware failure here at home, we've been
> using one desktop locally and one remotely from an old vaio.  How do
> you take the lag out of remote X?

Well, LTSP _isn't_ remote X.

As for lag...

I was running a remote X setup for a while.  _Most_ apps were
reasonable, but Galeon was painfully slow, in particular tab management
(navigation, creation, deletion).

I was using direct access (no SSH tunelling) over a local, hub (not
switched) 100 Mbps network.

There are some bandwidth-reduction proxies and such, but general word is
that they're best used on remote connections as they also introduce
latency.

Otherwise:  if you can run window management locally, you're ahead of
much of the curve.

VNC might be a better option.


Peace.

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