Gian, I've been watching the reactions to the announcement of your NX project. Basically, I was refraining from commenting, until I had a chance to check it out, and also I wanted to see what others on the list thought of it.
There were some nay-sayers in the bunch, but I expected that. I'm not so worried about the fact that you have plans for a commercial product utilizing your technology. The fact that the technology is free is a very good thing. I think at this point, i'm very impressed with what you guys have done, and I'd like to push forward with a plan to collaborate on integrating some of your technology into the LTSP, to provide a seemless method of deploying low bandwidth X windows. What I'd like to suggest is that we meet on the #ltsp IRC channel at some scheduled time, and discuss the technology, and see if we can figure out a way to work together. Please let me know what time would work best for you, and we'll see if we can get something going. Thank you, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Gian Filippo Pinzari wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2003 06:03 pm, Evan Hisey wrote: > > Take a look a the rdesktop project. It is a GPLed NT/2K terminal client. > > > > http://rdesktop.sourceforge.net > > Maybe can be worth a note that NX provides a NXized rdesktop, > called nxdesktop. It runs at server side and is used to provide > access to MS RDP sessions using unified architecture and client. > What travels between terminal server and client is compressed X > protocol, not RDP. So this is a *completely MS-free* solution. > > MS TSE ---> NX server + nxdesktop ---> | compressed X | ---> > > ---> | compressed X | ---> nxproxy ---> X server > > NX client is just an X server (where not already present, as in > Linux) plus compression libraries, GUI and some other add-on > software. > > The NXized rdesktop offers 2:1 to 10:1 compression to client > compared to rdesktop speaking MS RDP protocol. Performances > should, thus, be comparable to Citrix ICA. Obviously the NXized > version ofRDesktop is GPL and can be used with or without > commercial NX client and server software. The same approach > is used to provide VNC sessions. > > We think that having demonstrated that - X CAN DO IT - it's our > biggest achievement and a big achievement for all the Linux and > Unix community. > > > > There already is an open source solution for connecting to a terminal > > > session from a windows client. I use cygwin/xfree86 on Windows XP to > > > create terminal sessions to our linux/solaris servers. See > > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.html on how to set it > > > up (specifically the section "Remote Sessions via XDMCP"). > > Our X server for Windows is based on this and there are not many > reasons to use NX just to access a Solaris box on your LAN. We aim > to provide the same functionalities over the Internet and in a secure > and scalable way, something plain X + XDMCP cannot offer. > > Sorry, I'm not going to advertise our software further :-). I stay tuned > to hear from LTSP project any suggestion, bug-report, proposal on > how to make simpler for LTSP and all the Linux users to enjoy the > power of thin client, fat server computing. > > /Gian Filippo Pinzari. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
