Processors looking for a good home

[Tyler Aviss]

Hmmm, I've had good luck with using freeNX over connections that would
otherwise be a bit spotty. It's a bit different than using a
thin/thick client though, something more like a VNC/rdesktop/etc
situation.

On 9/17/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:11:00PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > I've streamed by TV tuner card to the thin client over two cheap 100MB/s
> > switches.  Worked as well as the console.  Then I sent it over ssh and it
> > still worked nearly as well as the console of the server (400MHz Epia cpu
> > on the thin client).
> >
> > I've also played GLTron to a thin client which was actually a Pentium-266
> > with 64MB of ram (with some fancy features off, but that is a function of
> > the vid card on the thin client).  I've also played other high intensity
> > games to a thin client.
> >
> > So while the thin client may constrain some graphically intensive apps I'm
> > yet to run across them.  Some people have suggested that CAD may not work
> > well to a thin client but I've never tried this.
>
> I remember netscape on 10Mbit (shared with 30 other x terminals).
>
> Things like GLX help a lot.  Is there a remote protocol for compressed
> video since that always seemed to be one of the worst things.
>
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> Len Sorensen
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