Low-Bandwidth X · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Sunday March 11, 2001 @02:50AM from the coming-next:-low-cpu-X dept.

pinzari self-promotes with this: "What about running a full-featured X desktop on your Yopy? Or having a virtual Linux machine, running at your ISP site, being accessed by a TV or PS2? I know Slashdot has treated this more then once and I remember a really interesting thread a few months ago. I think that most of the reasons why nobody has taken this seriously is because nobody thought it was actually possible. Medialogic has just released MS1 of mlview-dxpc. It's a deep rework of the old DXPC which can really be used to run remote X desktops over the Internet, the way Citrix, Microsoft and SCO aim to do using proprietary protocols like RDP and ICA. mlview-dxpc is very preliminary but, in our opinion, it looks very promising. After all this hype about .NET and Application Service Providers, I can't forget X was born exactly for this purpose."

1 of 145 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

TightVNC by tessellation · 2001-03-11 00:22 · Score: 5

anyone interested in using remote desktops over IP networks ought to take a look at TightVNC, which implements lossy JPEG compression (finally). It's about 70% better than VNC and about 90% better than PCAnywhere 9 from my personal trials. To give you some idea of the improvement, you can now use TightVNC over ISDN from Japan with good responsiveness, compared to waiting two minutes for a screen refresh with plain VNC.