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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] (fwd) NX Project Announcement
From:       "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle () danka ! de>
Date:       2003-03-31 18:59:09
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Martin Konold wrote:

> Am Montag, 31. M?rz 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) 

That's what I said.

> and the client is free (as in free beer) already.

...not sure if it will stay so (or if it is only for "testdriving" it for the
time being.)

>>>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.

OK. Didn't knot this.

Do they also work over  WAN and ISDN like this? Or is it only (100MB?) LANs?

> Regards,
> -- martin
> 

Cheers,
Kurt

 
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