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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.

We've also run it under Openstack on an Ubuntu 12.04 image, and it works
great.

Warren


On Fri, 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
> --
> 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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