I came to ltsp from a citrix/windows terminal server setup. With ssh, vnc, the citrix ICA client for linux and some creativity we have a much more reliable and certainly more cost effective system.
You might want to install a small ltsp server at each remote office to get the desktops booted up. Then run your apps with vnc or "x over ssh". -Jeff > There are actually already quite a few programs/modifications to X that > deal with this issue. First one that I can think of is lbxproxy > (stands for 'low bandwidth X proxy'). This is fairly trivial to setup > (once you know how X is working). There are other tricks that you can > do as well, like tunneling apps across SSH and using compression to > increase > performance (although you may end up with somewhat of a performance > tradeoff because of the extra work for encryption). And finally, one > solution that I have not worked with (yet) is called DXPC (Differential > X Protocol Compressor). I believe it uses Xnest on both ends to cache > local copies of X messages among other things and so speeds up the > link dramatically and also only sends those messages that are > absolutely necessary to be sent, etc and compresses them if possible. > There is also a Java version of DXPC, although I'm not sure what kind > of > performance you would attain using the Java version. > > Hope that gives you some helpful starting points. > > Adrian Snyman wrote: > >>Does anyone think that the X consortium will eventually try and >>optomise the Code for minmising the data exchange requirements for >>screen updates ?? >> >>I know it's a long way off from being ICA or RDP .. but surely there >>will be work in this area .. >> >>I noticed that a lot of thin clients out there are going the Linux >>route on a flash ROM/Drive .. meaning that they are stripping X to the >>bare bones .. surely there must be people/organizations looking at >>improving the native performance of X ? >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Jason A. Pattie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing > real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! > http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
