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Subject: Re: Remote X
From: Tim Cutts <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:30:50 +0100


On 19 Oct 2004, at 9:21 pm, Nick Phillips wrote:

ssh is so ubiquitous these days, I really don't know why anyone would not want to use it.

There are reasons, occasionally. Principally performance. For some graphically intensive X apps, especially those manipulating large bitmaps, the extra overhead of the SSH encryption can make them unusable even on fast networks.

Tim

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