On Sunday 12 March 2006 22:57, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:48:50PM +0000, Segedunum wrote: > > On Thursday 2 March 2006 22:03, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > Desktop integration of local devices. Floppies, CDRoms and USB memory > > > devices plugged into the thin client... > > > Network transparent Audio. running your favorite audio on the server, > > > while > > > the speakers are attached to the thin client terminal.... > > > > The best solution, from a networked thin client perspective, I've seen for > > this today is via something called NX Server from NoMachine > > (http://www.nomachine.com). > > > > The main problem with discussing that is that there's no common denominator > > umbrella standard for handling it all, like X. > > And that it's rather non-free,
The core is GPL. In my book that is Free Software. That core can be used on the commandline, to establish fast peer-to-peer NX sessions remotely. But that's not easy to succeed in. > except if you use a freakish collection > of shell scripts Hey, they work. And apropos "freakish": IMHO, the shells scripts used by FreeNX are no more "freakish" than the Linux init scripts, or than KDE's "startkde", or... And of course, you are free to re-implement FreeNX in Python, Perl, C, Ruby, C++, C#, Qt, Gtk.... or whichever $favorite_language you like best. :-P > to work around that. No, not "work around" that, but bind the Free core components together in a way that makes it possible for "normal", non-expert users to run NX sessiosn. > Oh, and it turns libX11 into a > GPLed library, rather than MIT. I do not understand your logic here. Why should NX turn libX11 into a GPL'ed library, just because NX itself is GPL'ed? And... how do you reason GPL'ed NX does aide and abet "rather non-free" (your first sentence above) at the same time? Hmmm... Cheers, Kurt
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