Making VNC behave like Windoze RDP

Paul subsolar at subsolar.org
Wed Feb 9 04:02:24 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 22:33 -0500, Ben Sheron wrote:
> <SNIP>
> While I'm on the subject, is anyone aware of a better remote desktop
> alternative for Linux?  VNC has worked OK for me on my local network,
> but going out over my cable modem it lags terribly.  Is there any way to
> maybe emulate the other RDP features, such as the ability to play sound
> from a remote machine locally?  Something cross platform would be nice,
> as I would be accessing my box from a Windoze machine.  I've Googled but
> haven't found much.  Just thought I'd ask.
> 

I've heard of Nomachine's NX client ... this is basically a specialized
X proxy that uses lots of client side caching.

The client is cross-platform.

http://www.nomachine.com/

Paul





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