Thanks Paul & Jonh for your replies. You didn't see the reply of John ? Maybe because he inconsciously click on "reply" and not "reply to all" which didn't happen if we use a forum (Yes, I don't like the only optioin "Mailling list" ;-) )
(Such a pain to do the "layout", around 25min ;-) ) > Cyril Vergne schreef: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I'm new here. I don't have developper skills like most of you but >> there's no Web-Place to talk about this nice product X2go. >John : "<grin> Many of us are in the same boat!" > Paul : "If you like a forum, you can go to here: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.terminal-server.x2go.devel > You can also post messages there." > >> I'm doing some testing to implement this solution for some of my >> clients. I tested Ulteo and NX Nomachine. After some more researches I >> found the FreeNX project which apparently was not supported anymore ... >> till I found this X2go project. >> >> I read about linux4africa where I can find some ideas of implementation, >> the blog about x2go, but not enough to see the real functions of x2go. >> >John :"We have found it an outstanding project. I just wish I had the >profitability to fund Heinz and Oleksandr full time! (working on it >though ;) )." They'll find funds quickly with the Cloud Computing technology !! I'm sure the donations would be huge if the x2go product seems to be stable and followed. >John :"The documentation is quite sparse. We are feverishly working on a pile >of documentation we hope to donate as soon as we finish it. In the >meantime, you can ask away on the list and we'll help as we can. I'll make a new post on the mailing list to expose my case and my needs. >> In my case for example, I love Ubuntu and I really want to propose it to >> my client. But there is a big problem about x2go on Ubuntu : No >> administration console. > > I am not sure what you exactly need. I don't use the administration > module. You can live without it ;-) > What i need it's an easy interface to control / maintain / supervise the x2go users, servers, sessions. You live without the administration module ? Fine ... for you. Can you give me at least the configuration files we have to play with ? >> Apparently the module kcontrol is not any more installable on this >> distibution (Ubuntu 9.10 in my case and probably the 10.04 in few >> months) ... and nobody talk about it. >> >> Is anyone found the solution in this case ? >John :"We started on Ubuntu as our base platform and eventually became quite >disenchanted for many of the same reasons cited by the Mepis project >when they switched from Debian to Ubuntu and then back to Debian. We, >too, have switched to Debian. We are also very favorably disposed to >RedHat but find the RedHat schedule too slow and the Fedora schedule too >aggressive for our needs. Debian Lenny + backports is about the best >balance we can find. ><snip> >Good luck with X2Go; it is truly a fabulous solution - John" > First development platform is Debian. There are packages for Ubuntu, but > not everything is supported there. > > We would like it if comebody would make Ubuntu-packages, but the point > is that Ubuntu makes many releases. It would cost much time. > > The point for me not using Ubuntu on a server is that it does not give > security support on many packages. Try this command and you will see you > are using many packages without security-support: > > aptitude search '?and(~s universe,~i)' > I'm sure Debian is a great product . Ubuntu was based on it. I worked in IT for 10 years and I have always been between Microsoft and Linux. But I know the easiest linux platform for "windows" users is Ubuntu. I tried some before and I really feel Ubuntu will be THE alternative of Windows for users. >> I read about the reason to not get a forum and I don't get it. The forum >> is easy to find an answer with the search module. > > You can search this list on many pleases, e.g. here: > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.terminal-server.x2go.devel > >> And you don't have to >> go there everyday to see if there's some new topics or updates, you just >> have to configure the notifications. >> >> Hope the X2Go project will be followed by many many people !! > > You can follow the list by mail, usenet news, as 4 kinds of rss-feeds, > as a forum and blog-like.... > >> Wish you a nice day. > > You too ;-) > > If you don't like mailinglists, try Gmane. Works very nice. > > With regards, > Paul van der Vlis. > > > > > -- > http://www.vandervlis.nl/ > > _______________________________________________ X2go-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
