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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:51:58 +0200
From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
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Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>,
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Subject: Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:19:19PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:03:41PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > 
> > Stock X is sufficient.
> 
> That's really not a substitue for nxserver's performance... Assuming
> Torfinn is working over a high latency connection.

I assumed the environment was a lan.
For a wan, ssh display forwarding and compression could help.

> Perhaps run the nxserver compiled on i386 in compat32 mode... ?

I would be very interested by the results.

The only showstopper to obtain an amd64 binary seems to be the lack of
-fPIC somewhere in the Makefiles. Perhaps a future version could be run
natively.

-- 
Francois Tigeot