Re: replacing X Window System !

[Helge Hafting]

DÃhr, Markus ICC-H wrote:

> > > Although one has to admit that working with remote X 
> > >      
> > terminals over a
> >    
> >
> > > SSH/WAN/VPN-connection is far from usefull, [...]
> > >      
> > You can tunnel just about anything X11 over SSH/VPN/etc.; even things
> > like a whole desktop GUI; not just plain X terminals.
> >    
>
> Did you actually do that? Starting Firefox over a 6 Mbit VPN takes about 3
> minutes on a FAST machine. ThatÂs not acceptable - our users want (almost)
> immediate response to an application, to clicking and waiting 10 seconds
> until the app is doing something.
>  
It is not that bad.  I tried starting firefox on a machine 20km away,
using a 5Mbps ADSL link from the "wrong" end.  (I ssh'ed into
my home pc from work.)
Firefox started in 55s, not 3min. Still bad, but that is a firefox
problem, not a generic X-tunneling problem.  I can start the
lyx word processor in 3s over the same link, and have decent
performance while using it too.

Helge Hafting
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