Proxy Servers Lighten Up X

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com is reporting on a compression and differential proxy scheme for X that makes it practical to xhost rich applications like Mozilla or a whole UNIX desktop over a 9.6Kbps connection (think cell phone with GSM modem). The company developing NX has a neat test drive set up -- and it is way zippier than VNC. There'll be a paper about it at the next LinuxKongress in Saarbrucken, Germany, and a call is out to OSS programmers to build on the GPL'ed NX library."

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Wanna bet if it will get /.-ed?

[botzi]

TestDrive is connected to the Internet by a 512Kbps DSL link.It runs NX Server Enterprise Edition, configured to execute, at the most, 20 concurrent Linux sessions.

Hmmmmmmmmm......yup, they're definitely prepared to be a /. celebrity.....

Whats a "rich" application?

[Viol8]

I thought the only one was /usr/bin/fortune or have I missed something??

Re:LinuxKongress?

[Trigun]

The KDE League has been behind this, and every major assassination in the 20th century. They're responsible for the California recalls, although Arnold has put a stop to their fiendish plan to take over Governorship and rename the state to Kalifornia.

They will be targetting Kolorodo next, then the cities of Kleavland, Klearwater, and Koopersville.
They've already got Kansas, Kulpsville, and Kure Beach. Cincinatti will be wiped off the map for its insolence of using a "soft c" sound, then Chicago for the dipthong fiasco.

They need to be stopped! At all costs!

Re:LBX?

[abe ferlman]

"Oh, by the way, these slides are running on a desktop in Italy, being remotely displayed here suing NX".

That wouldn't have happened to be an SCO desktop, would it?