Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubuntu Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:18:53 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <9g659dFt8U2@mid.individual.net> References: <9g5i1tFnnbU3@mid.individual.net> <24049304.27.1318953582217.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prng5> <9g5n98F5upU1@mid.individual.net> <9g5s6sFh1jU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net tjLY6JvsdNeIr0bk8cPQhgfF3ErUrEBUzmnErW5HucdJfHMUI= Cancel-Lock: sha1:ImYqwg2XtgqFFUKiBgkeKX7pJdI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: <9g5s6sFh1jU1@mid.individual.net> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8964 On 10/18/2011 07:43 PM, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: > In article<9g5n98F5upU1@mid.individual.net>, > Robert Klemme wrote: >> I have always found X11 across a network to be extremely slow and hence >> don't use it. IMHO RDP is significantly more efficient especially for >> remote connections, VNC's protocol could be as well. > > There is that (the performance issue). My experience has been that > over a fast local network, it's good enough for most applications, > though I seem to remember that there are exceptions (though not what > they are). Over a not-so-fast network, yeah, it can be too slow to > be usable. I think the last I tried remotely via X was Firefox. It was awful even though it was a LAN IIRC. > Strongly agreed about the value of "screen" -- I've even been known > to use it locally, for its cut-and-paste features. > > Nice to know that there are at least a few other shell fans out there? Count me in. :-) Cheers robert