LinuxWorld 2005 - report

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 9:18 am, someone claiming to be Lonni J Friedman 
wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:10 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! 
wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > I attended the first exhibit day of LinuxWorld (in San Francisco)
> > > today.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Did you check out the FreeNX project's booth (mebbe it was nomachine's)?
> > There's s'posed to be a demo of the latest release available.
> >
> > Since installing FreeNX on my home machine (and replacing my faulty cable
> > modem), I'm able to run my KDE desktop remotely with amazing
> > responsiveness. Sure, it's running on a cable modem, but my upload speed
> > is capped, so it's not as much available bandwidth as you'd think.
>
> I honestly don't remember seeing such a booth, plus i had no clue what
> FreeNX was/is.

FreeNX is only the greatest thing since sliced bread...
LinuxJournal is running a 7-part article series on it by Kurt Pfeifle, the 
latest (4th) article was published today: 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489. The technology allows running 
remote X applications securely (via ssh) over even dial-up connections. It 
can also connect to Windows' RDP and VNC/TightVNC in addition to directly to 
X11. Supposed to be faster/better than TightVNC, although I've never 
configured TightVNC so can't vouch for that. I know it sure beats the sh*t 
out of running X apps remotely using ssh -X...

I wrote a step on configuring it on FC2:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/guis/FreeNX_on_FC2.html

Tim
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