Re: (N)X2Go - LowBandwith sessions for takeaway incl. sound
Hello Jonas Smedegaard,
I hope my answer will apear on the right place in the mailing list. I've joined the list to late to reply your email.
I will try to answer your question:
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Sounds nice. But a quick look seems to indicate that it is based on NX.
What is the status of NX? Isn't that still too non-free for Debian?
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The idea of x2go was building a completely free, but modern server based computing environment. We use the open sourced NX libraries (GPLV2) of nomachine, but we are not using their infrastructure (for example the nx client). x2go is NOT compatible with nx or freenx. x2go uses linux native authentification methods (pam & sudo) and SSHFS for file transfers. The Server and Clients are completely FREE (GPL) and there is no need to use the closed source nx client (which is - as i mentioned incompatible to a x2goserver).
There is no licence mix - x2go has no dual licence.
There are - at the moment - 3 different clients for the use with x2goserver. A commandline client - which is perfect to use it with existing software or building own clients, a graphical QT4 Client for use under Windows, OSX and DEBIAN/UBUNTU with a new "mini-view" for the use on the EEEPC (will be released soon) and a GTK Client (still in development) for Gnome Desktops. The QT4 Client is capable to work as an Login Manager like xdm (with LDAP Browser view).
x2goserver is multiserver ready, you may add a server to the LDAP repository and it/they will bei visualized by the kcontrol mudule "x2gosessionadministration".
x2go is used in a bavarian high-school on 3 servers and at peak time 80 users. They are using debian edu packages for their lessons, but the installation is debian etch, not skolelinux. Because of other highs schools in the district, they are very interested to get the skolelinux tools and the possibility to get help from the skolelinux based schools.
Our doucumentation at the moment is "not as good as it should be". Please feel free to ask me about realized features until our documentation is complete (Stefan Krug is working on it - especially on the english version).
If you have downloaded the LiveCD, these little films (ogg) will show you, what you can do with it:
http://x2go.berlios.de/flipchart/screencast-beta/
In the next Version of the LiveCD will be a short documentation, but no more OpenOffice due to the Size of the Image.
Greetings,
Heinz
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