[Cialug] No Machine

[Kevin C. Smith]

I'm running Ubuntu. FreeNX is not part of the standard release. 
Add the source:

deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ hoary-extras main
universe multiverse restricted

Actually, I'm not sure it's in the hoary repository just yet. Also try:

deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/ warty-extras main
universe multiverse restricted

Newer debs can be found at:

deb http://kanotix.com/files/debian/ ./

I had some trouble with this newer FreeNX in Warty. I'm running Hoary
now an think it would work fine now, however I'm just going to wait for
backports.ubuntuforums.org guys to get to it.

For RPM search on:
http://rpmseek.com you will find a number of options.

Sources:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx




On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:18 -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I can't find the source of the free server, can you send a pointer?
> 
> I may be searching for the wrong thing (freenx?). Is it available as source?
> What distro are you running the server on?
> 
> I'm trying to run the commercial demo but I am running into a library
> problem.
> 
> Thanks Kevin.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin C. Smith [mailto:kevin@linuxsmith.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:14 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] No Machine
> 
> 
> 
> > Was Kevin using No Machine?  (NX Machine)
> >
> > Anybody else?  Is it preferred to use the GPLed and free version or 
> > the GPLd and pay-fo-license version?
> >
> > What are the benefits of NX over VNCserver?  I'm guessing encryption, 
> > and ease of use, any others?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Nate
> 
> Yes I was. I'm running FreeNX the GPL server, and using No Machine's clients
> for Windows and Linux.
> 
> The clients are "free", I believe in both meanings. (Not sure... anyone?)
> The server NXserver is licensed. The GPL FreeNX works fine for me, however I
> have one client at a time connecting (me), so cannot attest to it's
> performance in an "enterprise" or similar environment. If I were to provide
> access for employees via NX at the office, personally I would purchase
> NXserver.
> 
> Basically, NX using existing Xserver protocols, SSH, and compression. It
> therefore provides and encrypted and fairly speedy connection. VNC is much
> slower (I used this for a time and gave up). Only advantage that VNC has is
> that it's server can run on other platforms than Linux. However, NX can
> proxy RDP, VNC, and ICA. So, I have FreeNX running on my Linux box at work,
> which provides RDP access to my various Windows XP boxs. Also, I've read
> that a NXclient is being built into KDE .. cool :).
> 
> Hope that answers your questions.
> 
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> Kevin C. Smith
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