On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]> >> wrote: > >>> I am also a bit >>> concern about other applications and their availability for SL 6.1. This >>> thing must run MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, SciPy, Numpy and be >>> accessible not only via ssh but also via NoMachine NX. In particular NX >>> is closed source for version 4.0 and above so I am not sure if the free >>> version of server will even install let alone run on SL 6.1. >> >> Wow, you do have a suite of tools that might add up to some support >> issues. Since our favorite upstream vendor's version 6 has been out >> since October of 2010, I suspect that all of those packages are now >> compatible with SL 6.0 or SL 6.1 > > I wouldn't be surprised if some of the applications mentioned are not > compatible with EL 6. I have an EL-5 box running VMWare Workstation 7 > but cannot upgrade it to EL 6 because this VMWare product does not > support RHEL-6.0 as host, does not support RHEL 6.1 as host/guest. > This is rather surprising; nine months after the release of RHEL 6.0, > it is still not supported. VMware WS is not free, and one would think > a company like VMware should do a better job for paying customers. > >> I wouldn't sweat the binary NoMachine implementation. While I dislike >> intensely closed source code, the freeware rebuilds of NX based tools, >> such as neatx and freenx, are all abandonware, and NoMachine's >> implementation is noticeably superios, especially for the Windows >> clients. And hey, with Putty 0.61 out and supporting genuine GSSAPI, >> I'm hoping that it can support genuine single-sign-on.. > > nx/freenx is indeed nice. Unfortunately, the version for EL6 is still > under testing. I have been running it just fine on EL6.0 as well as on > 6.1. It just has to be finalized and published (from the CentOS extras > repository). Anyone wishing to give it a try can download the testing > version from: > > http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/ > > The current version is: > > freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay > nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay
And the nx code is about to leave GPL licensing (according to the company that owns it, www.nomachine.com), with the release of version 4. And FreeNX hasn't had a software update in over three years. It's abandonware, like all the other freeware NX wrappers. And by the way, I do believe I personally *wrote* the last updates from CentOS for those tools: I certainly submitted my updates for RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0 compatibility, and I haven't noticed anyone tackling the project of porting the features of the commercial NX 4.x alpha releases to any other new GPL releases. I do wish that NoMachine would publish them under GPL, and wrote to them about it, in combination with buying some licenses.
