On 5/14/2013 1:50 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 5/14/2013 10:19 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
After all, X is not Windows. The reality is you can make a graphics card that does most of what X requires since all X is is the display. The computation is done on the computer, not on the display. True, but X (even the lightweight versions) is a bandwidth hog.
I'd be leery of doing that on any scale over a wide area network, (I've done it, and it sucks). Its ok on a campus network, but its sucking way more bandwidth than having your own Linux installation on a local machine with files hosted on a network file server.
Same problem with Windows Terminal server. Doesn't scale well over long distances.
Hmm. In the early-mid 90's a colleague was logging into our network from home over a 14.4k line, running x on his home pc. He said it was not full speed (we were using HP-PA machines, but was quite comfortable. Of course, x wasn't complete at that time. Maybe it took up more bandwidth as it grew? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org