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NX - A Revolution In Network Computing?

Posted by michael on from the one-network-to-bind-them-all dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Judging from this interview, it looks like KDE developers have found a new toy to add to their desktop's networking capabilities. They claim to be able to cram a fullscreen KDE session -- KMail for mailing, Konqueror for file management, Mozilla for web browsing and OpenOffice for word processing -- into a 40 KBit/sec modem connection without losing responsiveness for the user experience. At aKademy, the 9 day KDE Community World Summit, a group of core developers started to work on NX/FreeNX integration to help facilitate the "re-invention of the KDE desktop environment" for KDE4. Knoppix-3.6 is the first Linux distribution to ship an integrated FreeNX server (created by Fabian Franz) with the NoMachine NX Client."

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  1. Not Any Time Soon by TheAmazingBob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NX will be useless until a sufficient portion of programs support it. This "revolution" is going to be a slow one. Teaching programmers how to successfully implement NX routines is going to take forever. Just look at Microsoft's "re-education" program for developers...

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  2. Forrest Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I once walked through the forrest and saw a post.

  3. Ask martinalderson@gmail.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    martinalderson@gmail.com doesn't think it's much of a revolution. martinalderson@gmail.com would love to hear your thoughts on the matter though.

    P.S: I am not affiliated with martinalderson@gmail.com

  4. Konquerer, Mozilla, and KMail... by FlipmodePlaya · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doesn't Mozilla serve the purpose of both KMail and Konqueror? Why include all three when you could have one or the other two?

  5. Re:Been there, done that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I'm a bible-thumping Christian. You got a problem with that?

    Yeah, you're going to vote for Bush. I have a real problem with that. Keep your religious value-systems out of government and keep it off of Slashdot.

  6. Yeah, that's a GREAT idea... by Anita+Coney · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because we all know how expensive hard drives are nowadays!

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  7. slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how come every site linked to in a news story gets slashdotted but /. never gets slashdotted?

  8. will we see an OpenGL DE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is what really should happen. Right now the DE under Linux isn't as snazzy as what it could be.

  9. Re:Kan we say marKeting? by Neil+Watson · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    MS Office still beats KOffice and OpenOffice and unfortunately I really don't think this is going to change that.

    Please quantify that statement with facts.

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  10. MOD PARENT FUNNY!!!! by Duhavid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, you are KO in my book.

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  11. Not all bible-thumpers are republicans by Fished · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm a certifiable, ordained bible thumper, but I plan to vote for Kerry. Perhaps we should keep our religious value systems where they are and you should keep your heathen prejudices out of government and keep them off of Slashdot?

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  12. Re:Been there, done that by photon317 · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I'm a registered member of Americans United for the Seperation of Church and State, and I would still vote Bush over Kerry. US Presidential politics is always about choosing the lesser of evils, to think otherwise is delusion.

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  13. Re:It's a "thin client"; it replaces nothing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    test.