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

[Steve Holdoway]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:43:24 +0900 (JST)
"Andrew Errington" <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> >
> > 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.
Apart from switching from client (server?) to server, why not just use X over the network?