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Static compilation

Posted May 22, 2005 21:30 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views) by tialaramex
Parent article: What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views)

The Linux downloads for NX are tiny when compared to the Windows download, because they don't have to bundle everything that was thought of between 1995 and today,

The win32 download is 3.87 MB, while the distro-specific downloads are about 1 MB. But there are also statically compiled versions, which range from 3.2 to 3.6 MB. By the way, the .deb package is 3.3 MB. Are you sure that the difference is not about bundling glibc?

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Posted May 22, 2005 22:04 UTC (Sun) by kobserver (guest, #30087) [Link]

I can tell you why the Win32 download of NX is larger than a typical Linux package download:

* NX clients always need an X server to display the remote session
* Linux typically have an X server installed and NX clients use that
* Windows typically dont have an X server installed so the NX Win32 client installtion package includes a complete X server for Windows

(The Win32 package currently uses the Cygwin XFree86 X server, and therefore also includes the cygwin.dll)