On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Paul wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:09 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Feizhou wrote: > > > > > John R Pierce wrote: > > > > umair shakil wrote: > > > > > Why dont u enable RDP on centOS (running GUI), and then using ubunto with > > > > > this path > > > > > > > > RDP is a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol. what good would that > > > > be for linux to linux ??!? > > > > > > Well if Linux did have a RDP server then it might be good...RDP is fast (well, > > > I could play Pinball 3D with it :-P) > > > > There is xrdp and I have packaged it for RPMforge, but I am not sure if it > > is completely usable. (ie. I haven't figured out how to use it and > > therefor I didn't make the proper sysv script etc...) > > > > The main reason that RDP is more responsive than VNC on windows is that > RDP does caching and works on the GDI API level similar NX does for X. I > have watched video playing on a Windows system using UltraVNC with > reasonable framerate on a LAN. x11vnc together with enhanced tightvnc does caching as well and is touted to close the gap with RDP. Lots of information from: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq-client-caching http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=544195&group_id=32584 http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]