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from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2005-08-09 07:01:58
subject: Re: Run don`t walk...

From: Jeff Shultz 

You want to add a few links and whatnot?

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:45:56 +0100, Adam wrote:

> To install nx if you're running/need to access linux systems via a gui.
>
> freenx will do. nomachines do a Windows client.
>
> I end up forgetting I'm not on that machine & spend a while answering mail
> etc before suddenly remembering I'm not on my machine any more but on one
> miles away.
>
> It is quite astonishing. (A) the speed & (b) the fact it's proper colours,
> resolutions etc.
>
> I can see this being a big hit with hardware challenged place. It even
> runs by default over ssh & handles all that for you. A work of rare
> genius.
>
>
> I get better speed etc over a link to my home machine (which has 256mb/s
> up) & where the inet link (at both ends) is often congested than I do
> using rdp to machines on the local 100mb/1gbit lan.
>
> It leaves vnc waaaaay in the shade.
>
>
>
> Adam

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