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Next Knoppix Release to Feature GPL'd FreeNX

Posted by michael on from the x-for-everyone dept.

linuxtag-reporter writes "The first day of LinuxTag, Europe's biggest Free Software event (expecting 25,000 visitors) already has one big highlight. It seems that Fabian Franz from the Knoppix Project hacked up a 'FreeNX Server' based on NoMachine's NX technology (poor NoMachine might lose business now). Fabian Franz presented a first preview of the 'GPL Edition' in a live demo together with Kurt Pfeifle. The demo showed sessions going from Germany to Italy just based on a slow WLAN connectivity (shared with hundreds of visitors). A connection lost due to bad network conditions was easily re-connected to, and a deliberately suspended session was revitalized too -- it was just like 'screen' with a GUI! A report on the official LinuxTag webpage says FreeNX will be publically released for the first time as part of the upcoming Knoppix-3.6 release. The Kalyxo project is building and hosting Debian packages of FreeNX and NX/GPL for everyone to use."

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  1. Poor NoMachine indeed. by FreeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    (poor NoMachine might lose business now).

    This is compounded by higher bandwidth charges due to their present Slashdotting. They'll be tits up in no time.

  2. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong by Martin+Blank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing becomes real mainstream if it's closed

    Yeah, that Windows product will never catch on!

    Sorry. I had to. I couldn't help it. The voices told me to.

    --
    You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
  3. Re:A day late and a dollar short by proj_2501 · · Score: 4, Funny

    emacs can do that! what other apps do you need anyway?

  4. Re:What do these things do? by XMyth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good point, lets not use the forum we have here for discussing things and just everyone be quiet and if you have any questions then keep them to yourself.

  5. Re:What do these things do? by dipipanone · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you're saying that you should be able to get a full and complete understanding of a technical system solution from a Slashdot article blurb without doing any research of your own or without reading any of the links?

    Not at all. Unfortunately, there isn't even the vaguest hint of what NX is from the article -- personally, I thought it was a Needle eXchange. But I decided to Google it to check.

    I'm glad I did though, because otherwise I'd never have known they were incorporating some new lesbian porn server into forthcoming linux distros.