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The irony

The irony

Posted Nov 5, 2010 15:54 UTC (Fri) by deepfire (guest, #26138)
In reply to: The irony by ibukanov
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

This is all based on the fact that the X implementation (the Xorg stack) we use daily isn't particularly efficient.

As I've already said below, if you want an apples to apples comparison see Nomachine's NX. As I said, I use it daily, and my experience is extremely positive.

And yes, it's open source.


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The irony

Posted Nov 6, 2010 22:17 UTC (Sat) by ceswiedler (guest, #24638) [Link] (4 responses)

Slight correction: there's an open, but somewhat old, version of NX. Recent versions maintained by Nomachine are free-as-in-beer for noncommercial use.

NX is excellent and I highly recommend it for remote X access, even on a local network since it provides session restoration and "just works". From what I understand, it compresses extremely well due to the nature of the X protocol, since it can see when things actually need to be sent to the client. A VNC or RDP server by comparison only has the final rendered product.

The irony

Posted Nov 7, 2010 11:24 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link] (3 responses)

No, you are wrong, see http://www.nomachine.com/sources.php

The sources for the core transport libraries are all there.

The missing stuff is the end-user application code, which they make money from.

The irony

Posted Nov 7, 2010 20:41 UTC (Sun) by dtlin (subscriber, #36537) [Link] (2 responses)

http://www.nomachine.com/redesigned-core.php

The new core of NX 4.0 is made up of a set of libraries written from the ground up to ensure portability, flexibility and state-of-the art performance. NX 4.0 core libraries will not be made open source. Although NX 3.x core compression technology and earlier versions will remain GPL, NoMachine engineers will not be developing the code further.

The irony

Posted Nov 7, 2010 21:27 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

The irony

Posted Nov 8, 2010 17:12 UTC (Mon) by dtlin (subscriber, #36537) [Link]

neatx is a wrapper for the 3.x NX core libraries, much like NoMachine's nxserver.

It does not support the NX 4.0 progress, and never will because there's nobody working on it anymore and the libraries are not open.


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