Re:Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
by aidenn0 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @11:10PM
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nx is way faster than rdp if you have a large display
Re:Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
by drivebyacct2 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @03:35PM
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> it's the round trip latency is the killer
Yeah, my understanding is that NX mimicks the remote end locally and then translates the result and transmits that. There's an Android app called BVNC that uses X forwarding with a local X server to do the same thing. No extra software and it's more responsive than X-forwarding.
I should've just mentioned it before, it may be of use to you.
Out of VNC, RDP and NX, VNC is the lame duck.
Out of RDP & NX, both require extra software but RDP is more widely re-usable (virtual box, windows etc).
The bandwidth requirements aren't the problem with X these days - a 3G connection at under 1Mbps real world is fine for reasonable display sizes, it's the round trip latency is the killer. It's such a chatty protocol, but on a LAN / WiFi it's fine and works out of the box with... scratch that, you need to install XQuartz separately since Mountain Lion. I almost forgot about that.