I would generally recommend running NoMachine's 3.x server, and their client for Windows clients, and OpenNX for Mac clients. Personally, this has been the best combo for me, and I use NX on a daily basis. I tried FreeNX client on OSX, but had problems. You'll have to check for license issues though. Technically, if you're giving out a VM per client, it will work.<br>
<br>We've also run it under Openstack on an Ubuntu 12.04 image, and it works great.<br><br clear="all">Warren<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Lorin Hochstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorin@nimbisservices.com" target="_blank">lorin@nimbisservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Is FreeNX still actively maintained? According to the web page <<a href="http://freenx.berlios.de/" target="_blank">http://freenx.berlios.de/</a>>, the last release was four years ago.</div>
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<div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div><div>--</div><div>Lorin Hochstein</div><div>Lead Architect - Cloud Services</div><div>Nimbis Services, Inc.</div><div><a href="https://www.nimbisservices.com/" target="_blank">www.nimbisservices.com</a></div>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Proulx <<a href="mailto:jon@jonproulx.com" target="_blank">jon@jonproulx.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">People around here seem to like FreeNX quite a bit, no real experience<br>
with XRDP so can't compare the two. But FreeNX is faster than either<br>VNC or old school X forwarding. Of course OpenStack can only handle<br>the redirected console through VNC, but presuming the instances are<br>
running properly with the right public IP and security group setup to<br>
allow it this won't get in the way of NX as a service on the VMs.<br><br>-Jon<br><br>On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <<a href="mailto:swinchen@gmail.com" target="_blank">swinchen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I am working on what seems to be a rather unusual use-case for<br>OpenStack. This fall we would like to give every 1st year<br>electrical/computer engineering student a VM (ubuntu 12.04) on 512<br>
core cluster. On this instance they will run the software required to<br>do their assignments, print, etc. I am only familiar with vnc through<br>an ssh tunnel and the performance is less than ideal. The replacement<br>
must have a client that can run on linux, max and windows, have better<br>performance than vnc and be secure.<br><br>Does anyone have any familiarity with some of the other options? I am<br>currently considering FreeNX, and XRDP.<br>
<br>I looked at several other options including:<br>2X TerminalServer - In the download section it does not list a client<br>for anything other than windows (not sure if the NoMachine client<br>would work?)<br>LTSP - A good client for windows/mac seems hard to come by<br>
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