From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 11:33: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9043937B4C5 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1736137F3A; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:30:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA79404; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:33:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14880.5101.615258.908158@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:33:01 -0500 (EST) To: Cc: Subject: [FBSD-Q] VNCServer and Alternatives: Where to go? In-Reply-To: <200011250802.AA11010594@wdc.callgtn.com> References: <200011250802.AA11010594@wdc.callgtn.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Rothwell writes: Erik> Hi folks, I'm looking for a decent BSD interpretation of the Erik> remote desktop phenominon (a la Microsoft Terminal server, Erik> Timbuktu, PCAnywhere, etc.) There are currently two things that I use, but keep in mind that I'm Microsoft-free. DXPC (see the port) is the "Differential X Protocol Compressor" ... it runs on both the server and the client to reduce the communication. It does caching and compressing and all kinds of other things to reduce the data flow over the link. It makes X usable over fairly long distance links. DXPC doesn't virtualize the desktop, but it does transmit the X well. I use it over DSL often and used it over ssh on the T1 at BSD-con. DXPC is a single TCP connection as well ... so it's easy to tunnel. I also use xemacs. XEmacs is capable of having multiple X servers open at once and allows you to have your editing/mail/news/kitchensink suite open on multiple desktops. It even allows you to open a running X session in text mode (it's the only application I know that can simultaniously interact with text and graphics on multiple terminals). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message