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Is FreeNX still actively maintained? According to the web page <http://freenx.berlios.de/>, the last release was four years ago.

Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com



On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:

> People around here seem to like FreeNX quite a bit, no real experience
> with XRDP so can't compare the two.  But FreeNX is faster than either
> VNC or old school X forwarding.  Of course OpenStack can only handle
> the redirected console through VNC, but presuming the instances are
> running properly with the right public IP and security group setup to
> allow it this won't get in the way of NX as a service on the VMs.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am working on what seems to be a rather unusual use-case for
>> OpenStack.  This fall we would like to give every 1st year
>> electrical/computer engineering student a VM (ubuntu 12.04) on 512
>> core cluster.  On this instance they will run the software required to
>> do their assignments, print, etc.  I am only familiar with vnc through
>> an ssh tunnel and the performance is less than ideal.  The replacement
>> must have a client that can run on linux, max and windows, have better
>> performance than vnc and be secure.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any familiarity with some of the other options?  I am
>> currently considering FreeNX, and XRDP.
>> 
>> I looked at several other options including:
>> 2X TerminalServer - In the download section it does not list a client
>> for anything other than windows (not sure if the NoMachine client
>> would work?)
>> LTSP - A good client for windows/mac seems hard to come by
>> XDMCP - Again, it seems as though the client might be a problem.
>> 
>> 
>> Any advice, or tips, corrections are welcome.
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
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