Re: 'NX' for Zaurus?
"Elwood C. Downey" <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:30:30 -0000 (UTC)
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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.