NX places a caching proxy server on either side of X's client-server architecture, reducing network traffic to differential transfers of whatever is not already cached. The company says programmers rarely optimize X applications for low throughput on the X client-server interface, resulting in many needless "round-trip" data transfers that NX can largely eliminate.
So instead of taking the whole X session and cramming it over ssh (even with compression) you cache the majority of it and just pass the deltas.
It has ssh capability so I imagine you can tunnel it but you would still be tunneling a LOT less traffic.
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Personally I am holding out for the iPhone version.
Well ok my wife has a 20G that she lets me borrow while I wait.
Here is the Google Cache
If you had read the article...
Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a Debian developers account
You would notice it was not a remote exploit. OpenBSD has had its share of local exploits lately too.
Don't get me wrong, OpenBSD is good stuff and has a great way of approaching security. But in this case, it could have been compromised just the same.
Did you RTFA?
NX places a caching proxy server on either side of X's client-server architecture, reducing network traffic to differential transfers of whatever is not already cached. The company says programmers rarely optimize X applications for low throughput on the X client-server interface, resulting in many needless "round-trip" data transfers that NX can largely eliminate.
So instead of taking the whole X session and cramming it over ssh (even with compression) you cache the majority of it and just pass the deltas.
It has ssh capability so I imagine you can tunnel it but you would still be tunneling a LOT less traffic.