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Yeah, I think it is that out of date.  The google fork neatx was last updated in 2010, so...

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Brian Schott, CTO
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On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 
> 
> 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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