[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 28 10:21:26 UTC 2010
From: Nataraj <incoming-centos at rjl.com>
> Are there any advantages to running FreeNX over vncserver? Does it
> perform better?
Unless I am mistaken:
VNC traffic is bitmap (whole screen or part of the screen, optionaly compressed)
transfered at each refresh.
FreeNX is compressed/cached XWindow traffic.
I think, although there are bitmaps in XWindow too, you could almost think of it
as bitmap (heavy) vs vectorial (light).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology
JD
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