On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:48:50PM +0000, Segedunum wrote:
> On Thursday 2 March 2006 22:03, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> > Desktop integration of local devices. Floppies, CDRoms and USB memory
> > devices plugged into the thin client...
> > Network transparent Audio.  running your favorite audio on the server, while
> > the speakers are attached to the thin client terminal....
> 
> The best solution, from a networked thin client perspective, I've seen for 
> this today is via something called NX Server from NoMachine 
> (http://www.nomachine.com).
> 
> The main problem with discussing that is that there's no common denominator 
> umbrella standard for handling it all, like X.

And that it's rather non-free, except if you use a freakish collection
of shell scripts to work around that.  Oh, and it turns libX11 into a
GPLed library, rather than MIT.

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