SSH Compression

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I still haven't gotten around to testing Dropbear but I did find that SSH has built-in compression that can improve performance over slow links.  So using the command: 

ssh -X -C user@host

Creates an X tunnel with compression which is much more usable for me.  It's still a bit slow but it is slow even on my LAN.  I'm still planning to see if Dropbear can squeeze a little more performance out of my old netbook.  Ultimately I don't think the Raspberry Pi will be much more powerful (if at all) than my netbook so every bit of performace optimization will help.