Google Releases Open Source NX Server

wisesifu writes with news of a new open source NX server, dubbed NeatX, that was released by Google and promptly lost in the shuffle of the Chrome OS announcement. "NX technology was developed by NoMachine to handle remote X Window connections and make a graphical desktop display usable over the Internet. By its own admission, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for 'quite a while' and decided to develop Neatx as existing NX server products are either proprietary or difficult to maintain. 'The good old X Window system can be used over the network, but it has issues with network latency and bandwidth. Neatx remedies some of these issues,' Google engineers wrote on the company's open source blog. NoMachine had released parts of the source code to its NX product under the GPL, but the NX server remained proprietary. [...] Neatx is written in Python, with a few wrapper scripts in Bash and one program written in C 'for performance reasons.'"

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Re:NIH

[Hurricane78]

Haskell, Visual Basic, and Perl

One of them does not fit in there. Can you guess which one?

In other words: Those who do not understand Haskell (which admittedly is hard if your brain is limited to OOP and procedural coding), will re-implement it, badly (new Python functional programming features, now also seen in many other languages). :)