[K12OSN] Cygwin X for windows - run from CD
Robert Arkiletian
robark at telus.net
Fri Dec 17 03:37:57 UTC 2004
Les Mikesell wrote:
>FreeNX works as a compressing proxy for X. That is, it can only work
>with X on the server side where it tries to optimize what it sends to
>the remote. It knows more about the X protocol than VNC, so font
>display and some other operations are handled directly by the client and
>can be more efficient. There will be some tradeoff between RAM and CPU
>use on the server to run the freeNX proxy vs. the bandwidth saved by
>the optimizations but I haven't seen real tests to show how this plays
>out with a large number of users on a 100M LAN.
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From your description I wonder if FreeNX would be better for
TeacherTool than VNC Reflector proxy.
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Robert Arkiletian
C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V219
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