Bug#255850: ITP: nx -- NoMachine NX - an X compression and roundtrip elimination system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : nx
Version : 1.3.99
Upstream Author : NoMachine
* URL : http://www.nomachine.com/
* License : GPL
Description : NoMachine NX - an X compression and roundtrip elimination system
NoMachine NX is the next-generation X compression and roundtrip
suppression scheme. It can operate remote X11 sessions over 56k modem
dialup links or anything better.
Package is being split as follows:
Package: nxagent
Description: NoMachine NX - nesting X server with roundtrip suppression
NoMachine NX is the next-generation X compression and roundtrip suppression
scheme. It can operate remote X11 sessions over 56k modem dialup links or
anything better.
.
The nxagent is an X server based on Xnest, but modified for the purpose of
reducing roundtrips over high-latency networks significantly. It is run on the
client side of X, that is, on the machine where X clients run. It connects,
over the wire, to your regular X server, possibly through nxproxy.
Package: nxproxy
Description: NoMachine NX - X protocol compression proxy
NoMachine NX is the next-generation X compression and roundtrip suppression
scheme. It can operate remote X11 sessions over 56k modem dialup links or
anything better.
.
The nxproxy runs on the X server side of the wire and thus accompanies
the nxagent running on X client side. It provides the protocol compression
and caching part of the NX scheme.
Plus the compression libraries used by those: libnxcomp0 and libnxcompext0.
Also nxssh will be packaged as part of nx source package.
Preliminary packages (still lacking documentation and much polish) can
be found in kalyxo staging archive:
deb http://www.kalyxo.org/debian experimental main
They already build and install, but are rather tricky to use.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
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