Re: 'NX' for Zaurus?

"Elwood C. Downey" <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:30:30 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.zaurus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bill Kendrick said:
>   Proxy Servers Lighten Up X
>   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1242200
>
>   LinuxDevices.com is reporting on a compression and differential proxy
>   scheme for X that makes it practical to xhost rich applications like
>   Mozilla or a whole UNIX desktop over a 9.6Kbps connection (think cell
>   phone with GSM modem). The company developing NX has a neat test drive
>   set up -- and it is way zippier than VNC. There'll be a paper about it
>   at the next LinuxKongress in Saarbrucken, Germany, and a call is out to
>   OSS programmers to build on the GPL'ed NX library.

What's all the fuss? Looks like these guys are just trying to make a buck off dxcp which I've been using for years to
run X over a modem. More power to them but there's nothing new here that I see.