Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 146.50.19.141]
on August 09, 2007 07:57 AM
It gives you nothing over VNC. Nobody will start kcalc or konqueror over Xming on his windows desktop: start a remote video presentation and you will see what happens. Vnc is a program especial focused on remote execution, so there is a protocol how the graphics is transmitted over internet in some encoded format. And here the differences come; you can't speak about "vnc" because there are several flavours. TightVNC which is in my opinion one of the best solutions, runs on linux and windows and has an efficient jpeg compression which reduces the graphical traffic. XMing is just a translation of X calls into windows calls (if I'm correct), it's something different.
So the answer: use (tight)VNC and ditch Xming for remote X applications. And if you have the applications on harddisk install a virtual linux server.
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Re: Use Linux over Windows with Xming
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 146.50.19.141] on August 09, 2007 07:57 AMSo the answer: use (tight)VNC and ditch Xming for remote X applications. And if you have the applications on harddisk install a virtual linux server.
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