On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:20:03AM -0400, Ross Mohn wrote:
A side note - FreeNX is your friend! http://freenx.berlios.de/
I agree, but FreeNX is also, as another sidenote, evil. The entire bloody thing (other than the core) is written in bash(!). It would have been easier to write it in C. I've had to make changes to it in the past and it's an absolute nightmare. Also, the whole setup is an enormous hack. If you want encryption, you tunnel over OpenSSH, otherwise, the server connects to the client, like active FTP. Just plain messy. Also, it lacks the ability to change connection parameters dynamicaly, such as compression and the aforemtioned encryption. I won't even go into SMB and ESD tunneling.
I wish I had the time to rewrite the bloody thing, core and all, in some reasonable form, but I don't. The FreeNX people probably could have done so with the same amount of effort if they had written it in C to begin with.
Sorry---two rants in one day to the same list. -- Kris Maglione _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
