[Discuss] FreeNx

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-11-20 10:06-0800 Michael wrote:

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>> I think of FreeNX as a way to accelerate X communications over a low
>> bandwidth high-latency network.  In practice, though, I find it is not
>> needed for typical home LAN speeds of 100Mb/s.  For example, for our
>> thin-client configuration (X-terminal), we don't bother with it because
>> there is no noticable difference in X access speed locally or over our
>> 100Mb/s LAN.
>>
>> Let's call your boxes, box1, box2, and box3 ... // ...... simply be a matter of
>> hitting ctrl-alt-F7, ctrl-alt-F8, or ctr-alt-F9.  X networking support is
>> truly empowering!
>>
>> Alan
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>    Am I understanding this correctly? Can I actually operate various
> headless systems via remote X sessions using FreeNX?

Actually, that capability has been built right into X for decades so there
is no need to bother with FreeNX unless you are in a low-bandwidth
(internet) situation.  100Mb/s LAN's have plenty of speed so the FreeNX
complication is not required to run X applications (e.g., KDE) on any of the
boxes on your LAN with a monitor/keyboard mouse combination permanently
connected to just one of them.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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