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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. Destroying NoMachine's business model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    FreeNX and KDE are destroying NoMachine's business model for sure....

  2. Pr0n by Ravensign · · Score: 0, Troll

    How much bandwith does that leave for the pr0n stream?

    --
    "Sig free in '03!"
  3. Re:Kan we say marKeting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    KDE is dead in the water on the corporate desktop. Novell, IBM, Sun... all GNOMErs. Only the slashdot editors and the zealots seems to think KDE has any future. It was and is crippled by the hugely expensive annual licenses required by developers to use the Qt toolkit.

  4. Say what?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...this can aid migration from Windows to Linux

    Yeah, it can also aid migration from France to Antarctica, just in case anybody's fucking dumb enough to want to move there.

    Here's the catch, see: Nobody is.

    You might as well try to hype AmigaOS for enterprise DB applications. The RHAT/LNUX IPO furor is over, kid. They failed in the marketplace. FAILED. Nobody cares any more. The joke is over, because nobody laughed. Linux has about as much relevance to IT today as raccoon coats and Stutz Bearcats now have to the Harvard/Yale game (oh, fucking Google for it, I don't have time to teach you everything...).

  5. Grammar nazi alert by sean.peters · · Score: 1, Troll
    Are they inferring that...

    No, %$#@ it, they're not. They might be IMPLYING it, though.

    For God's sake, people. The difference between "infer" and "imply" is not that complicated. We ought to be able to get it straight.

    Sean