Now that's a shiny solution for a mixed environment :-) -----Original Message----- From: Gian Filippo Pinzari To: ltsp-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 3/28/03 11:58 PM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] NX Project Announcement Hi all, this message was sent to LTSP, GNOME and KDE developers' mailing lists. We invite everybody in these lists to check our work at NoMachine: http://www.nomachine.com NX is a commercial product and some parts are closed source, nevertheless all the core technology on which NX is based is and will remain OpenSource. This includes very, very good compression of X protocol that is the result of 3 years of hard development (I know it was hard, as I'm one of those who did it ;-). Beside software developed by NoMachine to handle X sessions, we integrated in the same infrastructure seamless access to RDP and RFB sessions through integration with RDesktop and and VNC projects. We would be glad to see close cooperation between LTSP, KDE, GNOME and NoMachine. We look forward to share not only our experiences, but even code, common architecture and desktop integration. Some early documents, among them an introduction to NX design goals, can be found here: http://www.nomachine.com/documentation.php Sources of core components are available at: http://www.nomachine.com/dev_sources.php There was a small thread in XFree86 forum these days were some technical issues about X as a remote computing platform and NX in particular were discussed. You can find it at: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000629.html We believe NX is opening Linux to an unexploited market and can give to X new life in the form of what it was originally intended to be: a pervasive network computing platform. NoMachine provides a TestDrive server where you can freely connect and run as many KDE and GNOME sessions as you like. We think we have done a good job. Customers and many Linux developers that had a chance to try it were really impres- sed by the performances, but we want to hear from the real experts. Download the client from here: http://www.nomachine.com/download.php then get a user id and password from: http://www.nomachine.com/testdrive.php At the moment the test account never expires, so you can use it to compare performances in different network conditions. Even if you don't care about X compression, consider that NX includes everything is needed to make a MS Windows computer a X terminal, so you can do with it something useful :-). A last word about NX commercial software. As we said, all the core components (and especially the X related components) are OSS and released ad GPL. This means that everything the NX client and server do, can be done by hand by a normal user having an account on the remote server. We aim at the lazy users :-). NoMachine intends to provide the higher level software and the administrative tools that make possible to run thousands of users' sessions. We aim at the same customers of Citrix MetaFrame and SCO Tarantella. In the future, we envision a world where any application is available to any device, from anywhere in the world. To make this possible we needed efficient transport and compression of X-Window. Now it is there and everybody can use it. It's our interest to make our technology widespread. We would be glad to see an OpenSource version of NX client and NX server software and would be happy to see our OSS code in LTSP, GNOME and KDE projects. We'll provide all the help to make this possible. At the same time we think that a 100% OSS business model is not affordable for our company. We would like to contribute to build a free battleground where OSS and commercial software can cooperate (but even fairly compete) to make OSS technology win against proprietary solutions. /Gian Filippo Pinzari. -- Gian Filippo Pinzari Amministratore Delegato Medialogic S.p.A. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net