Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: blmblm@myrealbox.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubuntu Date: 19 Oct 2011 13:26:48 GMT Organization: None Lines: 30 Message-ID: <9g81gnFj6eU3@mid.individual.net> References: <9g5n98F5upU1@mid.individual.net> <9g5s6sFh1jU1@mid.individual.net> <9g659dFt8U2@mid.individual.net> X-Trace: individual.net rr7ABf7vzsVWmMPIgvL7nAcdyMDE1TeJI+pN0hgHxG+dgwT7oy X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:zLXm3HADRLt6nCEiuyFVkAsLD8s= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8992 In article <9g659dFt8U2@mid.individual.net>, Robert Klemme wrote: > 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. Hm! It almost surely depends on the speed of the network; for me Firefox over a local network works reasonably well. Well, except that X doesn't seem to have a way to forward sound. Often that's not a problem, but sometimes it is. I wonder if there's some way around that .... well, probably not a question for this group. [ snip ] -- B. L. Massingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.