LinuxWorld 2005 - report

[Brad De Vries]

On 8/10/05, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 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

Tim, I use Cygwin to access my Linux machines from Windows PCs but I
always struggle with sound.  As a matter of fact, I've only got the
remote sound stuff to work once.  Does FreeNX have better control over
server apps producing sound on the client's speakers?

Brad.