Mark Lanctot;234654 Wrote: > You will find in Linux there's a big push for "free" as opposed to > "free" software. "Free" in the first case implies freedom, i.e. > freedom from corporate controls, freedom from patented/licensed > software components. "Free" in the second case implies "free beer", > you don't pay for it but the other concerns are not met. > > For the most part, the end user doesn't care either way, but the > potential is there in the "free beer" case that the company can do > something nasty or start demanding licensing fees a while down the > road. Also their product cannot be modified, corrected or > redistributed without their involvement. Their product cannot be > distributed with other products that are themselves "free" as in > freedom, like an entire Linux distro, because they contain patents or > intellectual property. This also saves the Linux distro organization > from potential legal problems. > > Some Linux distros are more concerned about this than others, but > Ubuntu is very adamant about this, you will not find any "free > beer"-type programs in their repositories. > > This is religious war territory, a Linux champion will no doubt correct > me on several points here. > > BTW there seem to be a lot of problems with FreeNx on the Ubuntu > forums, so I didn't bother with it. > > > > Another Linux discovery: Linux is always case sensitive. > > > > Don't forget, this is a client-server environment. The way you have it > working, the Ubuntu machine is the server, the Windows machine is the > client. To go the other way, you have to install the server on the > Windows machine and use the client on the Ubuntu machine.
Thanks Mark, Thats cleared a few things up. One thing i would like to know though is how to switch between windows and the nx client/server session. Whilst in the nx session viewing the linux server if you alt-tab or press the windows key on the keyboard you get back to the windows screen. Then the nx session minimises to the tray, if you click on it you just get a black screen. If you then alt-tab back and try to close the nx session it does not respond the only way to kill it is with task manager to end the process. -- Ashy72 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ashy72's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12230 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39186 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
