NX - A Revolution In Network Computing?

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 31, 2004 @06:21AM from the one-network-to-bind-them-all dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Judging from this interview, it looks like KDE developers have found a new toy to add to their desktop's networking capabilities. They claim to be able to cram a fullscreen KDE session -- KMail for mailing, Konqueror for file management, Mozilla for web browsing and OpenOffice for word processing -- into a 40 KBit/sec modem connection without losing responsiveness for the user experience. At aKademy, the 9 day KDE Community World Summit, a group of core developers started to work on NX/FreeNX integration to help facilitate the "re-invention of the KDE desktop environment" for KDE4. Knoppix-3.6 is the first Linux distribution to ship an integrated FreeNX server (created by Fabian Franz) with the NoMachine NX Client."

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No, wrong idea by kermit6306 · 2004-08-31 07:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

Can we please let go of the dream of using X, NX, VNC or anything else over dial-up or slow links? It's not happening people. It's too slow; it doesn't work. The REAL question is, why is X slow even over fast links. I've used X and VNC over 100Mbit LAN and 802.11b. It's useable but frustratingly slow. If we consider making X faster instead of coming up with something completely new (which will no doubt have it's own set of problems. like uptake, which someone already mentioned), that would be much better. Hopefully full desktop X and VNC will finally be usable over gigabit LAN/WAN, 802.11g or at least the upcoming 802.11n/gigabit Wifi.