[SunRescue] 'X' software to connect MS Windows to Solaris?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:54:34AM -0800, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> Background - we're a PCB design firm, 60-40 NT-Solaris.  The 'trend' is to
> migrate the Solaris boxes to a rack, give everyone NT on the desktop, and
> make them use an X-Server (client) software to connect to the unix.

If you have a switched network, you may want to benchmark VNC against an X Windows solution.  VNC seems to eat more network bandwidth, to the point that using it on a non-switched network would not be fast enough.