(a bit OT) anyone installed NX or freeNX and test it with dfII ?

Hi All,

I see that nomachine NX and freeNX could be an interesting option for
telework, but the thing is rather complicated to configure. I could use
some opinions/experiences. And of course I would like to know how well
it performs with dfII and its graphics (virtuoso , awv).

 

Hi All,

I found it working quite well. Even though i had it crashing sometimes, which can be
quite annoying. Setup is not this hard, once you get a correct tutorial...
if i may help you with it, as far as my memory can serve, don't hesitate.
cheers,
stéphane

 

I want to install freenx on solaris, with dtlogin/CDE. I did not find

i have no experience with doing this on solaris, but it should be no more problem.
i found that the hard part was to setup authentication. the mechanism is rather strange,
you have to have a nx user which must be able to authenticate via public key. you'll have to create
a key pair and distribute the public one to all the clients. the client logs via this user
and then authenticates the real user via password.

hum, don't remember where those tutorial were, but i'll have a look.

about the crashes, they really seemed random. no direct relation to dfII, hopefully.

stéphane

 

How does it work, compared with vnc?
Running cadence remotely (DSL) via vnc is a bit too slow.
Does freenx improve this siginificantly?
Regards, Harald

 

I run cadence over ica at work and I'm not very much impressed.
I run cadence over tarantella from home on a DSL 768kB downlink 128kB
uplink connection and it is slower than ica at work, but not
significantly slower. (I think that ICA is used over that tarantella
stuff, but I haven't found out really) Which means that ICA is good on
narrow communication links.

I have not been able to use NX from home vs. the servers at work for
reasons probably obvious to any paranoid system administrator, but not
understandable for an engineer who want to play.

 

My blog is in my head. I found that since blogging was invented, google
spit out even more crap. This time not just commercial crap but also
people who post their own opinions and misinterpretations for everybody
to read. Some of the wikis out there are even worse: Opinions and
comments with errors do not get corrected and thus give more hits with
errors. The worst about this is that when the original owner get fed up
with keeping his blog up to date, he doesn't remove it from net, no it
stays there and fill up the internet universe with promises and
perspectives about this and that and the devil knows what all he wants
to do when he only get time to get around to do it. Nice technology, I
think.

I wanted to put up a wiki on cadence and started to look for a wiki,
found a lot, but not the one I would like to use. Either the front-end
was to ugly or the back-end was filled up with database technology and
things that I care a sh** about like skinning and theming and other
sugar for the eyes that bloat the software. You're right, everything
moves too fast. One decent exception is USENET.

Yup, I was talking to one of the Paranoids about installing this and
that on the client servers in order to have a productive environment on
the pc desktop, but quickly got feedback that broke all illusions. You
get the feeling that the tool Computer, which should help people do
their job, has become the target and people have to adapt to its
peculiarities. Welcome to the matrix.

 

Found a few good links and articles on freeNX, if you want to do some
more reading on freeNX:

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8477
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8480
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8483
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489

Here's a good article on X-graphics with lots of good references:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html

Found that one on slashdot today...

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/08/31/1340241.shtml?tid=104&tid=152&tid=106

Trevor