<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, R. Scott Belford <<a href="mailto:scott@hosef.org">scott@hosef.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Rob Owens <<a href="mailto:rowens@ptd.net">rowens@ptd.net</a>> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Conrad Lawes <<a href="mailto:pxeboot@gmail.com">pxeboot@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> > I concur with William. I am still amazed that folks are still using vnc >> > when freenx or nomachine is sooo much faster and easier to setup than >> > vnc. >> > >> > Out-of-the-box freenx is more secure since it uses the ssh protocol by >> > default. >> > >> > >> > <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/FreeNX" target="_blank">http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/FreeNX</a> <<a href="http://goog_1253883863086" target="_blank">http://goog_1253883863086</a>> >> > >> > <a href="http://www.nomachine.com/download.php" target="_blank">http://www.nomachine.com/download.php</a> >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, William Fragakis <<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com">william@fragakis.com</a>>wrote: >> > >> >> Using freenx server (I've had better luck with the nxclients as opposed >> >> to the freenx clients) has worked for me to have a full remote desktop >> >> via ssh. >> >> >> >> William >> </div><div class="im">>> Interesting, I hadn't heard of this software before now. I presume it's >> closed-source though, considering the links for 'enterprise evaluation >> versions' of the software on the download page. Still, seems worth looking >> at for me. Since we switched from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 9.04, we've been unable >> to replicate the former's prebuilt VNC setup. > > NX Server is proprietary, but FreeNX is not. > > -Rob </div>With respect to the use of FreeNX, part of my Utopian setup is a CentOS server running a paravirtualized, Edubuntu-themed desktop, a paravirtualized Debian Desktop providing DRBL services, and a paravirtualized LDAP/NFS/SAMBA/PDC server. Both the CentOS server and the Ubuntu Desktop accept connections via FreeNX. The compression algorithm is outstanding, and the packages are maintained in repositories. A client, be it a PXE booting netbook, a USB booting netbook, or any computer running a nxclient, connects, compresses, authenticates, loads a profile, and gets going. Here's the thing - the client can be in your LAN, it can at the students' home, it can be one of our transitional homeless in Hawaii using a netbook through free public wifi, from the hospital if your kid is sick, on vacation if you are traveling, etc., etc., etc. The magical gigabit connection we are used to seeking is automagically compressed into the freenx connection wherever you choose to make your LAN. Utopian LAN - all desktop are BIOS locked to pxe/etherboot/gpxe boot. Boot options, be they from flash, pxe, hard drive, pxe to http, etc - are controlled by the gpxe boot menu and administered remotely. How does one achieve, and how will google achieve, the ubiquitous roaming Desktop via the web - the NX compression integrated into the BIOS or as part of your pre-configured flash drive. I've been doing it with my netbooks since last year, and it's scary good. --scott <div><div></div><div class="h5"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </div></div></blockquote></div> Wow, I've daydreamed about setups like that but I didn't think the technology actually existed! If only out budget were bigger... =)