RE: recommendations for alternatives to rdp

Robin Paulson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:51:20 +1300, Michael Field wrote:
> I concur. The issues I have is that every application now seems to
> render the entire window as bitmaps, and you can't turn this off. 
> Java
> apps seems to be the worst for this, then (strangely enough) the web
> browser interfaces of big ERP systems...
>
> If your users are trying to access media-rich content or play Angry
> Birds over RDP of course RDP will be the problem - just contrast the
> bandwidth of a 8xPCIe 64Gb/sec connection with that of a 54Mb
> wireless....
>
> Ways that work around this disparity usually involve data compression
> which adds to the latency and increases CPU demand at both ends...

 hmm, interesting. no, they're not doing games, it's for business 
 applications which aren't at all graphics intensive

 i have a feeling there's a misunderstanding of the technology 
 somewhere.

 the same person told me they were looking at using the Windows iPad as 
 a platform, so that option has always been close to the front of my mind

-- 
 robin

 http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/?p=237 - government bill to remove basic 
 human rights in NZ

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