Trying to figure our if NX is only a proprietary solution (at least couldn't find anything immediately in http://www.nomachine.com which provides it) >From my tests it works great the only problem is that I'd like to use a free as in beer application. I've stumbled upon a great thread summarizing what NX is and how it works on XFree86.org forum ...
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000328.html This is positively in the scope of linux-il and does interest me and probably others on the list. Lior. On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:36 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:54:43PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Please excuse the somewhat-offtopic subject. I think it concerns and > > interests quite many people here. > > > > I want something like the following (no real, thought out design, > > just a sketch): > > > > A client machine (think about a thin, maybe netbooting diskless PC > > one, but doesn't have to be) somehow gets a login screen from a > > remote server. This login dialog allows the following: > > 1. The usuall stuff one finds in gdm/kdm/xdm/wdm/*dm > > Is xdmcp a must? > > anything better? > > > > > 2. An option for a "persistent" session. > > If the user chooses the persistent session, one of the following > > happens: > > 2.1 If there is already a session for this user on the server, it > > is attached immediately. An option to create a new session might > > be in the first dialog, but I want the default to be as fast and > > automatic as possible. > > 2.2 If there is no session, a new dialog, maybe consisting of most > > of the session types of the first, appears, letting the user > > choose a session type for this new session. Then it's created and > > connected to. > > > > In addition, it should be: > > * At least as fast as X when on a LAN, preferably with all the extensions > > the real X has (if it is indeed an X) - e.g. GLX, with the hardware > > acceleration if available. > > * At least as fast as the fastest remote slow-link compressor available > > today (I think that's currently nomachine's NX). > > > > There are few mostly-independent issues here: > > * Speed and features > > This is already mostly available today, as separate protocols/programs, > > not as something dynamic (e.g. a VNC session has the extensions it has > > based on how the VNC server was compiled/configured. It can't use exts > > available on the actual client dynamically, I think). > > * Low network bandwidth use > > This is the most worked-on issue, and is getting better every year. > > * Comfortability and automation (securely!) > > I know almost no work in this direction. The closest I could find is > > a project to add internally VNC support to gdm by someone at RedHat > > (google for 'gdm vnc'). > > > > I might have a few mistakes in the above (e.g. maybe VNC is smarter > > than I thought, I read only little of the docs), but you'll agree > > that the fact that Unix/Linux had remote display for more than 15 > > years, but almost no useful session persistence, while Windows has > > only around 7 years of remote display, with comfortable persistence > > from day one - is simply amazing. > > VNC has been around long. I also don't believe that OpenGL/DirectX works > well over such persistant sessions. > > What about NX? I heard andread about it, but never tried it. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
