On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good point - by "better" I mean higher performance. We have a fast > connection, but our VNC experience is sluggish compared with remote > desktop to Windows Servers on the same network. Mostly because you're comparing apples to oranges. VNC is a screen-scraping vendor-neutral (any-to-any) bitmap-mirror, where Windows RDP knows more of the internals of windows is able to transmit much less information. There are a couple of solutions: remote X over ssh requires you to have an X server on the Windows machine. NoMachine's nx essentially combines the ssh, X forwarding and compression in one package (I did a presentation on nx back in 2006. Assume most of it is out of date: http://www.tedroche.com/Present/2006/nx.html) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
