Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 22:38 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, John A. Sullivan III
> <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> >>
> > Yes but doesn't xrdp rely upon VNC and thus have the same performance
> > issues as VNC? I would be delighted to be wrong. RDP on Windows has
> > show remarkable improvement with versions 6 and 7 to the point that it
> > is almost as responsive as NX but I do not think xrdp takes advantage of
> > that - John
>
> Yes, xrdp does rely on VNC and so performance is not great, but it's
> certainly passable for remote administration tasks and light web
> browsing.
>
> As for freenx, the OP can get nxserver itself from NoMachine's site.
> It's limited to 2 simultaneous connections, however, but it's the real
> deal. I don't know how much longer version 3 will be available there
> (it will not be released freely in version 4).
>
> --
> Chris
>
>
Thanks for the confirmation because I was not 100% sure.
I was disappointed to see NoMachine's proprietary approach to version 4
but that is why I recommended X2Go (www.x2go.org) - John
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