Gavin McCullagh writes:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Conor Daly wrote:
>> > At work we are about to run a test of a remote access server. The
> > proposed GUI forwarding method is citrix based on its low bandwidth
> > consumption. However we will have full network access from linux clients.
> > X forwarding and VNC are apparently much more bandwidth intensive. Are
> > there any free protocols out there that will let me access my work desktop
> > (FC5) with as low bandwidth consumption as citrix?
>> A year or two ago there was huge hype about NX and FreeNX.
>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8480>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8477>http://www.gnomeuser.org/documents/howto/nx.html>http://www.nomachine.com/>> But I must say I haven't heard a peep about it for a year or more now.
We were recently playing with it here, and NX beats the crap out of
X/Citrix/VNC/Windows native remote in terms of responsiveness.
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