I spent some time looking at the <http://www.nomachine.com> website and was impressed.
We are using both Citrix and LTSP. Citrix is a commercial product that is expensive but works very well for accessing remote desktops or applications on the LAN or over a dialup connection. I regularly access a Citrix desktop from home over a 8kb/s connection and it is almost like being in the office in terms of update speed. I have also used pcAnywhere and still use VNC to do occasional administration on a remote system, but both are tediously slow when trying to get real work done, and certainly not a desktop replacement. In the office we now use LTSP for about half our workstations, and it works great as a daily work environment. The missing link to working from home or for salesmen with laptops to access a Linux/LTSP desktop is the bandwidth requirement of X. VNC is too slow to get real work done. Citrix had some rumblings a year or two ago about providing a commercial product in this space, but nothing happened. Sun has its Rays, but that is not LTSP. It looks to me like the NX Project announcement is exactly the product to fill the remote connection void. The GPL part is great. However, even the commercial service which should pay these guys for the work they have done could be worthwhile if that solves an important business need for your company or organization. Their products appear significantly less costly than Citrix/MS licenses. Combine NX with projects like KDE 3.1 remote desktop and you should have a feature similar to Citrix shadow sessions. Congratulations from my part. -- Peter Bakker IT Manager IC CONTROLS Ltd. Orangeville, Ontario Canada www.iccontrols.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
