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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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