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Linux in Government: Major Breakthrough in Linux Technology (Linux Journal)

[Posted June 6, 2005 by ris]

Linux Journal looks at FreeNX. "For technically inclined people, imagine X server technology with compression so tight that GNOME and KDE sessions run over modems with SSH encryption. Image lightening-fast thin clients that use tiny amounts of bandwidth and handle audio and video, printing and session suspension instead of termination. Imagine real virtual KVM switches without hardware. Say goodbye to SunRay servers and all the thin clients that never lived up to their promise. Think about real heterogeneous interoperability on PCs and devices that scale."

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Posted Jun 6, 2005 21:24 UTC (Mon) by kobserver (guest, #30087) [Link]

KDE-ers seem also to be willing to mentor FreeNX-related Google "Summer of
Code" bounty submissions. Now you have only to convince Google to accept
it.

See here: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Google%20Bounties

Depends on which applications you are using

Posted Jun 7, 2005 18:03 UTC (Tue) by astrand (subscriber, #4908) [Link]

The NX protocol is not "lightening-fast" with all applications. For example, with Java applications, the performance is very bad, just as with the plain X11 protocol. Try logging into the Nomachine demo system and run "javaws", for an example. VNC-based solutions does not suffer from this problem.