Re: replacing X Window System !

[Peter Gordon]

> 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.

> However, there´s NX (http://www.nomachine.com/) and
> other products but out of the box X11 it´s quite slow over higher latency
> connections.
One good way to reduce latency (at least when using X11 over SSH) is
to tell SSH to compress its connection tunnel ("ssh -C ...").
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