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.
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