[ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure than VNC server?

[Scott Plante]

I'm not a huge fan either, but according to the question they are happy with the speed of VNC in their environment. 
Scott 

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From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 1:16:54 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure than VNC server? 

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 12:20 -0400, Scott Plante wrote: 
> You could always run VNC over an SSH tunnel. You could create a batch 
> file that starts plink and your VNC client. 
> 
> 
> Google also turned up this: 
> http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html 
> Looks like he built a VNC with SSL and SSH tunnel options. 
> 
VNC is horribly slow. Even RDP is faster. VNC over ssh with 
compression is somewhat better (in addition to be much more secure) but 
still sucks unless you have a lot of bandwidth. About the only thing 
slower, in my personal experience, has been raw X11 forwarding over ssh 
(I don't even consider X11/XDM over live network due to security 
issues). 

> Scott 

Regards, 
Mike 
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