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Re: Terminal like server for linux



on Fri, Oct 18, 2002, Crispin Wellington (crispin@aeonline.net) wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 08:15, Curtis Vaughan wrote:

<...>

> One thing I have noticed is the Windows VNC viewer is *crap*. During
> refreshes it will consume 100% CPU. Take two systems that are identical.
> On one put linux with a vncviewer. On the other put windows with a VNC
> viewer. Put them both on 100 Megabit ethernet. Load a programme that
> changes the screen at 60fps. On the linux client you will get close to
> 60fps updates. On the windows client you will be lucky to get 5fps. This
> is definitely due to bad coding in the Windows client. There is no
> reason why the windows client is so slow, other than its badly
> programmed.

Is that vanilla VNC (from the old Olivetti lab in the UK, now Lucent,
soon to be defunct), or TightVNC?  I find the latter tends to perform
relatively well.

Peace.

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