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Google Releases Open Source NX Server

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-and-good-together-defies-reason dept.

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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  1. Root is like crack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Root is like crack. Don't smoke it. I did once and got hooked. I ran Mac OS Updates as root. ****, I even had sex with my girlfriend as root. Man, that caused some permissions problems. When I started the road to recovery (logging in as Zacks) my girlfriend was all like: "**** no! You can't get any cause you don't own me an I don't go groups. You don't have the power to read, write OR execute so get out of my FACE" So I was all HELL NO bitch. And she wuz like you do not have root (superuser) privlages so get out of my TruBlueEnvironment! So then I went chown and chmodded her ass to me. Dat be-otch be up in my hizzouse. What what. Holla!

  2. Help me Rob Malda you're my only hope! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Help me Slashdot! Me and Steve Jobs were jacking each other off while we dildoed each others' asses with our iPhone 3Gs. Mine got stuck up my ass after I came and then Steve ran out on me! I've been trying to call him to come help me but he won't return my calls. What do I do?!?!!? I'm so scared...

    1. Re:Help me Rob Malda you're my only hope! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Mine got stuck up my ass after I came and then Steve ran out on me! I've been trying to call him to come help me but he won't return my calls.

      How'd you dial the phone if it was stuck up your ass?

      Never mind, I don't want to know.

    2. Re:Help me Rob Malda you're my only hope! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How'd you dial the phone

      Voice dial FTW!

  3. It's no Quartz by gig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Google is serious about Android and Chrome OS, then they will build something like Apple's Quartz. There is no substitute for doing this all in OpenGL.