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From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lee
Sent: 13 October 2006 16:04
To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Ubiquity

William Fragakis <william@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

!!!! Yes I forgot completely about NX. Thank you. 

> It 
could be done now, of course, but X scales better (it takes
> a bit of 
server resources for the nx compression).

Hmm.... multi-core CPUs. 

How feasible is an application farm? Seems like sessions could be 
load-balanced ala a reverse website proxy. 

Is that on the payware side 
of NX?

> VNC will get you a desktop while FreeNX will let you use 
interactive
>  apps like Flash and childrens' programs without being 
dumbed down 
> to 8 bit color.

Now that's truly neat. Is this b/c 
NX has a special video-driver 
function?

/lee



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