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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] (fwd) NX Project Announcement
From:       Martin Konold <martin.konold () erfrakon ! de>
Date:       2003-03-31 17:24:17
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Am Montag, 31. März 2003 12:52 schrieb Kurt Pfeifle:

Hi,

> > Kurt: You are comparing apples and oranges.
>
> Both are fruit.

;-)

> I've done that too (but forgot to mention) and NX is far faster than pure
> X.

I agree that NX is extremly fast but it looks to me that in the local case the 
benefit is small.


> > The NX Client already works nicely with KDE.
>
> Yes -- but NX is planned to be a *sold*, commercial product. (Dunno about
> the pure *client*, but at least the part called "NX server" is.

Most parts are OSS (GPL) and the client is free (as in free beer) already.

> > X11 was able to do this for many years!
>
> No. Not really. Only in theory. Since performance sucked, no-one really did
> it set up as the standard way to do enterprise-wide computing. With the NX
> technology,  I think it could become a real option.

Sorry, to correct you but I am aware of _many_ installations according to this 
model in the banking and telco business.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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