LPC: 25 years of X [LWN.net]

LPC: 25 years of X

Posted Sep 28, 2009 14:21 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: LPC: 25 years of X by pranith
Parent article: LPC: 25 years of X

You might be thinking of the NoMachine NX protocol which provides compression and performance
improvements for high latency links. IIRC Google put some effort into the open-source NX software
because they use it a bunch internally.

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LPC: 25 years of X

Posted Sep 28, 2009 21:01 UTC (Mon) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] (1 responses)

They just wrote new management wrappers, though; I'm not aware of any patches contributed to the actual NX code.

LPC: 25 years of X

Posted Oct 1, 2009 14:53 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> They just wrote new management wrappers, though; I'm not aware of any patches contributed to the actual NX code.

Last time I tried NX (before the Google contributions), the "actual" NX code was already running fine. But the existing "management wrappers" were a big pile of unreliable sh... ell scripts spoiling the whole thing.