Re: [tlug] Xming - COOL!

["Mauro Sauco" <sauco@example.com>]

On 2006/11/07@??:33, <Joe Larabell> wrote:
  > 
  > > > I think you'l find that the whole concept of an X server on Windows has
  > > > been around for much longer than that but I could be wrong.
  > > >
  > > Errr.. You're right. Blush, blush. Upon futher reading this concept is
  > > nothing new at all.
  > 
  > AFAIK, the X protocol itself is fairly bloated and somewhat insecure. For
  > remote connections (remote as in not on the same LAN), there is a better
  > solution that's been around quite a while:

To say that X is insecure and suggest that VNC is a better solution I
think it is no a good idea :) (of course VNC can be tunneled through ssh
but so can X)

The best solution is not to use GUIs at all (after all why would you
need it?) :-)

//mauro//