| Feature | Windows XPe |
Linux | Wyse ThinOS with TCX | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Redirection | Yes | No | No | Wyse ThinOS with TCX supports flash acceleration which is not as desirable as flash redirection. |
| Multimedia Redirection | Yes | Yes | Yes | All clients support multimedia redirection for video codecs such as wmv, mpeg and avi. |
| USB Remoting | Yes | Yes | Yes | All clients support isochronous USB remoting such as Webcams and offer USB PDA sycronization. Wyse ThinOS utilizes the TCX software. |
| VOIP – Optimized Speech codec | Yes | Yes | No | XPe and Linux client support the new Citrix speech codec. Wyse ThinOS uses TCX Rich Sound which is less desirable. |
| WAN – Branch Repeater Client | Yes | No | No | Only XPe clients support the Branch Repeater Client, but the Linux client supports HDX IntelliCache WAN Optimization. Wyse has a Virtual Desktop Accelerator for software WAN acceleration. |
| HDX 3D Graphics | Yes | Yes | No | The Linux client does not support decoding of GPU-compressed data streams. |
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