Jasmine Strong wrote:
On 22 Mar 2006, at 11:45, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
But X gives you networking, so you can run the apps on something with a lot more power and access them via the E3. If you don't mind the E3 no longer being a stand alone machine then the networking potential of X brings a lot of possibilities.
If that's what you're after, NX or VNC would be far more appropriate.
But NX sits on top of X, ie the client needs a local X Server. I suppose you could write a direct to framebuffer NX client, but then you'd have effectively written an X Server with the compressed X tricks of NX built in.
VNC is (usually) "all or nothing" - the entire desktop would be served from the server, with X you can pick and choose what runs where (so you can still have local X apps if appropriate). While VNC can allegedly be bashed into serving just applications, I've never seen this done (I've only ever seen it listed as a suggestion for future improvement to VNC servers and clients).
Scot