Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:45 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:01:30AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > I would strongly suggest looking at X2Go - also NX based. It is a
> > relatively young progress but has been making significant progress over
> > the last year - www.x2go.org and wiki.x2go.org. I think you'll be
> > pleasantly surprised - John
>
> >From my limited understanding of the situation, the original NX is a bit
> of a nightmare to package (very messy collection of scripts and technologies)
> and the x2go people are gradually unwinding and resolving this. There was
> a recent discussion about attempting to package x2go in Debian on the
> development mailing list. I think it will happen one day, but perhaps not
> before more clean-up has taken place.
>
> Another technology worth a look (not sure of situation wrt packages in Debian)
> is 'SPICE', being developed by Red Hat: http://www.spicespace.org/
>
>
Yes, SPICE has excellent potential. It is still in very heavy
development and has some serious holes. It also is still not quite as
fast as NX on WAN links. Nonetheless, we are watching the technology
very seriously - John
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