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Old 19th November 2008
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Here's three ....
  1. Independent of graphical platform (X, Win, whatever)
  2. Many possible network protocols, some significantly more efficient than X.
  3. Client software for non-X platforms much simpler to install and operate, and actually are not even needed -- most VNC servers, including TightVNC, can use a graphical browser as the client.
I am not convinced. My replay to that in order would be:

1. Win what? Last time I checked Windows is running X server without any problems. Xming is native X server for Windows platform. Cygwin is not the most native way to run X server on Windows but it is never the less very good way of running X server and lots of other GNU software.

2. Sure. One of the most efficient network protocol is Trivial File Transfer Protocols. It is used in well known concept of Thin Clients. It is far more efficient than any VNC stuff I have seen.

3. There are Java based clients that can be used inside of your browser to
get GUI access to remote desktop. It is even less efficient than VNC.

I have used VNC in the past. My favorite client is SSVNC but when run properly ssvnc is more or less GUI for ssh.

I would really like to hear more convincing argumentation.

Last edited by Oko; 19th November 2008 at 09:37 PM.
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