[ale] VNC

[Jonathan Glass]

An RDP server for Linux?
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rhcontrib/7.2/i386/rdesktop-server-1.0.0pl19.7.3-4.i386.html

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks interesting.

jonathan glass

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:03, Geoffrey wrote:
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> > I've liked VNC and I've hated it.  Mostly due to speed.  It seems
> > that even on 100Base-T it is still slow.  TightVNC has helped out
> > a lot in fixing that problem.
> 
> The speed issues are primarily because M$ won't publish docs, so the vnc 
> folks are doing a lot of guessing.
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, it really should just be used as emergency access.  Anything
> > else and the speed will get you.
> 
> I would disagree, I used it to access various windows servers over a 
> dialup when I was working remote for the AT&T HR organization.  It was 
> sufficient to accomplish whatever I needed to do.  I wouldn't try 
> running photoshop or something like that over it that way though.
> 
> What would be awesome is a RDP server
> > in KDE of Gnome.  RDP is a better protocol and is faster. But, speed can
> > also be affected with a poor implementation of RDP.
> > 
> > Using VNC constantly starts out as a novelty then gets old really fast.
> 
> I would only use it as a necessity.
> 
> -- 
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> 
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