[Discuss] FreeNx

[Michael]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:49 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

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


    This is extremely interesting! The things I learn every day. What is
this functionality called? I have never researched the x server at all,
so I wouldn't have the first clue what to look for. I will start
searching under "remote X sessions", but if it actually has a specific
name, things will certainly go faster.

    Michael.

    p.s. Thanks Alan. You clearly know your your Linux mojo. :-)