Re: 'NX' for Zaurus?

Bill Kendrick wrote:

>So, when will we have it? ;^)
>
>  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.
>
>  
>

Is this very different from NCD's xremote stuff they used to do in the 
early 90's? That was supposed to work over a 9600bps modem as well with 
no problems. (In fact I saw it demonstrated and it looked fine at the 
time, although it wasn't running a desktop over it of course :)


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