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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.'"
"require 100x less of bandwidth"
WTF? Dammit, I'm not a grammar nazi, but, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN TO SAY?? Put it into a mathematical equation and post it - don't try to translate it into ghetto talk or advertising talk. Unless, of course, you are one of those advertising morons - in which case you should put a disclaimer in your sig.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
That's actually very cool, it looks like nomachine has come close to catching up to Citrix. Though I have to wonder about how easy some of those things are to achieve in the real world. For instance it took Citrix over a decade to get remote printing support right with the PS4 UPD and the version 9 client. Guess I will have to give it a looksee, though without support for MS Office it's not likely to meet the needs of my current employer.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.