On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:32 pm, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Now I have to install the "rdesktop" tool, and also get permissions set
> up so that X clients at work can talk to my Gnome desktop.

If you are used to using rdesktop to access Windows remotely, you'll be sorely 
disappointed in the performance of your remote X clients.  The remote X 
clients will be glacially slow compared to the RDP Windows.

I strongly recommend checking out NX.  The NX suite is a set of programs that 
create a cacheable and compressable layer between the remote server and your 
local workstation.  It's nearly trivial to setup and once installed, the 
performance is comparable to RDP.  I use NX daily as well as rdesktop and can 
testify that there is no performance difference.  I run KDE remotely with all 
the bells and whistles enabled and it still feels like I'm running it all 
locally.

NX is made up of OSS libraries with either a free or commercial front-end.  
The commercial front end is from NoMachine (http://www.nomachine.com).  Since 
they do all the development for NX, I felt that it was well worth the money 
to buy directly from them.  The free version is FreeNX (no real home page.. 
do a search for 'freenx' or 'freenx centos' for lots of hits).

Kurt
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