Is there anything even remotely as fast as terminal services for linux ?

[Entelin]

Well I not talking about 2mb/s I am talking about over a modem 56k or
less. With terminal services / citrix it works and works pretty well,
with vnc and x forwarding it is barely usable. 

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 23:25, Kevin Geiss wrote:
> X is a whole different model from windows. instead of remotely displaying
> a whole screen, I like to ssh into the remote machine and forward my X
> connection over ssh. Then I can run X clients (apps) on the remote machine
> and display them locally. If you stay away from pixmap-based GTK+ themes,
> it's pretty quick even over my 2mb/s wireless connection on my laptop.
> 
> gvim, for example, is blazing fast displayed remotely. most of the time
> I can't tell a performance difference, remote vs. local.
> 
> think about it, why would you want the whole desktop drawn over the
> network? you probably only want to run a couple X clients remotely.
> 
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 12:33:53AM -0700, Entelin wrote:
> > Is there anything even remotely as fast as terminal services for linux ?
> > 
> > I know of VNC and its variations but its too slow by far. Don't we have
> > anything as fast?
> > 
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