[X2go-dev] [Pkg-x2go-devel] Getting things started with x2goclient

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:42 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
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> > >>  I'd imagine there is no reason why
> > >> something else besides NX could not be slotted into the wrappers in
> > >> place of NX -- perhaps something that handled video and other large
> > >> screen updates better.
> 
> This has been the biggest selling point of NX technology. The next best
> thing is said to be RDP, then come the more advanced VNC based projects.
> YMMV.
> 
Indeed, NX runs rings around RDP.  However, it fails miserably playing
remote video and consumes lots of CPU when doing large screen updates.
> > >> Of course, the big question is what.  HP has done some very interesting
> > >> work with adaptive protocols, i.e., they adapt their compression
> > >> algorithms to the needs of the video transfer.  If I understand them
> > >> correctly, they handle the streaming video problem not by spooling the
> > >> file to the physical desktop and playing it locally like Citrix does but
> > >> by adapting the algorithms used for transmitting the video.  I do not
> > >> believe they have open sourced the code.
> > >>
> > >> Almost two years ago, Heinz forwarded me a link to a University project
> > >> that was investigating more video friendly remote video protocols.
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> One promising development is SPICE http://spice-space.org/ resp.
> http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/desktop/spice/ .
> 
We looked at SPICE very seriously and are big RedHat fans however, at
last look, it was primarily a LAN protocol and did not work well on
lower bandwidth, WAN links.
> Another new development (though the FAQ says it's only tested on high
> bandwidth links) is xpra http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra .
> There is even a GUI app around it, winswitch http://winswitch.org/ .
> 
> What I tried with some kind of success across an analog modem link years ago
> was the Differential X Protocoll Compressor (dxpc)
> http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/ .
Just took a very quick look at this and it looks very interesting!
Thanks for digging it out - John
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