On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:17 +0000, Mike wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > I generally prefer freenx/NX but it's handy to have vnc available too. > > > > They perform different functions I understand... > > freenx/nx cannot easily connect to the native desktop on a remote machine > unless I have misunderstood the information I have read. > > freenx/nx is good for running a second X session on a remote machine... > but desktop sharing (which is needed to help people fix desktop issues > remotely) is not, I believe, easy to achieve using it, apart from > connecting to a remote vnc session. > > Of course someone may well respond and explain how desktop sharing > (to enable remote help over ssh tunnel) can be done with freenx/nx > alone (and no vnc) - but I never found documents to say that this > functionality was possible with freenx/nx I thought they are essentially the same in terms of funcionality. The NX work came after VNC (don't know if technically you could call it a fork, but no matter) and mainly improves the protocol for sending window events and deltas back and forth, hence is a lot faster in many cases. There may indeed be a difference in the case of the 'vnc' X module, but I suspect an equivalent module could be developed for NX. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
