LBX? or faster remote X?

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Wed Nov 5 01:27:08 PST 2008



Bob Tracy schrieb:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:37:43AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Keith & Jim's 2003 Usenix paper suggests ssh with compression beats LBX
>> in most cases:
>> 	http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/
> 
> They lie, *especially* for slow links.  However, NX is a vastly
> superior alternative to consider: it's actually usable over modem
> connections.  You won't miss LBX.
> 

i also have good experience with NX but is uses SSH.
the have published there code as GPL. license problems aside it would be
a huge advantage for xorg to incorporate the changes in the std. libraries.

re,
 wh



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