[X2Go-Dev] X2Go vs. xrdp

Mathias Ewald mathias.ewald at vxpertise.net
Tue Oct 1 13:45:48 CEST 2013


Hi Mike,

thanks for the response! The latency "problem" was good to know, thanks!

cheers
Mathias


On 09/30/2013 09:18 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
>
> Sorry, for this late reply. Your mail somehow slipped through.
>
> On  Do 26 Sep 2013 17:00:58 CEST, Mathias Ewald wrote:
>
>> for a company I was tasked with comparing x2go vs xrdp. Unfortunately,
>> information regarding performance is scarce at best ... What I have is
>> that x2go provides a lot more config options like pack, * redirection
>> etc. but absolutely nothing reliable on performance. Do you have any
>> information for me? Did you conduct any tests?
>
> No, we did not conduct any bench mark or alike. There are many 
> personal experiences around, though. Latency is more an issue to X2GO 
> than bandwidth.
>
> Furthermore, xrdp encapsulates the VNC protocol, so it is an XVnc 
> session that gets ,,converted'' to RDP. (which then gets converted to 
> X11 on the client, in case it's an Linux machine). So, this looks 
> quite awkward. X2Go uses a compressed and cached X11-like (NX) protocol.
>
> You may find some information on the NoMachine website [1]. X2Go's 
> graphic stuff is based on NX 3.5.
>
> Greets,
> Mike
>
>
> [1] http://www.nomachine.com
>
>
>
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