On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:52:27AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > John Thomas wrote: >> Gary wrote: >>> My question is that I will need secure access to those servers via X, not >>> just the C/L terminal. What do you recommend for a good secure CentOS >>> program which would do this. Would also want to access via a high >>> port, but >>> I am sure just about any program will allow this to be manually >>> configured. >> >> I use NX and find it amazing. I downloaded the RPMs from nomachine.com >> because I had not found that they are built in one of the repos >> (testing if memory serves). >> > I second the recommendation for NX, especially if you want a full desktop. > > There is a better version of NX in the upcoming 5.2 release in the > extras repo. > > The major difference between nx/freenx and vnc is that NX is compressed, > so the desktop is pretty much like running it on the machine, where vnc > (and normal X forwarding via ssh) are much slower. I use a remote NX > desktop all the time, and it really is just like being on the machine. > Yeah in all the tests i've done personally i've found FreeNX to be a bit faster. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Ryan Lewon /sbin.us