[clue-tech] FreeNX.

[Jon Buttjer]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Crawford Rainwater
<crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com> wrote:
> ----- clue-tech-request at cluedenver.org wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:26:42 -0700 (MST)
>> From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
>> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] FreeNX.
>>
>> >> Anyone know of ANY remote access applications on Linux or OSX that do
>> >> this that easily?  Just curious.  Not trolling.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, no, and I've looked hard.  Microsoft's RDP-based remote
>> > administration and Terminal Services are head and shoulders above
>> > everything we currently have.  I understand that NX comes close, after
>> > some hair-pulling, but I've not yet gotten through the hair-pulling
>> > part successfully.  VNC works well, but is painfully slow, and doesn't
>> > work well in unreliable networks.  Screen is perfect, but, of course,
>> > it's CLI.  We need something like it for the GUI.
>> >
>>
>> If I am following the request and question here, NX does permit audio
>> to be played from the remote host Linux/Solaris system through the
>> client.  Have I tried it personally, no since we use this primarily
>> for servers running virtual machines behind a firewall with only ssh
>> access so that we can use the GUI tools (no flaming here ;-)) for a
>> "big picture" and VNC/RDP into said virtual machine(s).
>>
>>> Any chance you might do a FreeNX session at CLUE soon?  I'd really
>>> love to see that.
...
> --- Crawford
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I would definately be interested as well.
jontheisguy