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Linux-Outlook (ouch) question



In a message dated: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:08:10 EST
John Abreau said:

>VNC? Ugh. Doesn't that just ship around a big pixmap of the desktop? 
>That would chew up bandwidth a lot more than just running exmh remotely.

I don't think it's that bad :)  It's actually slightly better than 
displaying exmh remotely because the VNC protocol is a lot more 
compressed and faster than standard X is.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul






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