VNC is not slow for me (was Re: [nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box)

[Andrew Errington]

>
> The question is about ADSL, so my experience could very well be of no
> consequence to the original poster, but I thought a good word for VNC was
> in order.

Hear, hear!  I used to run a headless server in my house.  I had my main
KDE desktop for email, wordprocessing etc. running on the server.  I ran
VNC full-screen on a laptop in the house.  Actually, we had several
laptops in different rooms, so I could move from room to room and keep the
same session.

At work I ran VNC over ssh in a window on my desktop.  This meant I could
(securely) access all my email and documents at home in the same way as if
I *was* at home, and it wouldn't interfere with anything running locally. 
It ran at an acceptable speed (just don't do video!).

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