Re: Thoughts triggered by these NeXTbuntu guys

[Andreas Höschler]

> > I often connect to my home machine from work, and use X windows over 
> > ssh
> > and then cable internet provider. Since GNUstep is extremely slow on 
> > that
> > connection even with xlib it exludes any GNUstep program as a viable
> > alternative to other X clients (but emacs, for instance, works 
> > reasonably
> > fast).
>
> I hate to throw cold water on something but it's best to be honest.  
> ;)  There's not much hope for this with the present architecture.  
> Essentially, pixmaps are being transferred over the wire.  Java/Swing 
> applications have the same issue.  The solution would be to reengineer 
> things so that 'back' ran on the display server, which is essentially 
> how OS X works.

I recommend to checkout Sun Ray Server and Secure Global Desktop from 
Sun Microsystems. Both run not only on Solaris but with some tweaking 
also on Linux and they both help a lot solving this problem.

Regards,

  Andreas