From kde-promo Sat Mar 29 00:04:07 2003 From: Dirk Mueller Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:04:07 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: [kde-promo] (fwd) NX Project Announcement X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=104889637120424 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH" --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, might be interesting. -- Dirk --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Envelope-to: dmuell@aixs1.rhrk.uni-kl.de Delivery-date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:11 +0100 Received: from aixs1.rhrk.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.3] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.1) for dirk@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:02:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de ([131.246.137.50]) by aixs1.rhrk.uni-kl.de with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 18z3jf-000KGA-00 for dmuell@aixs1.rhrk.uni-kl.de; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:11 +0100 Received: from uni-kl.de (mail.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.52]) by sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2SNwADe016182 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.uni-kl.de (mailgate2.uni-kl.de [131.246.120.7]) by uni-kl.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2SNwAgg016767 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from ktown.kde.org (kde.informatik.uni-kl.de [131.246.103.200]) by mailgate2.uni-kl.de (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h2SNwAUg002175 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:10 +0100 Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:10 +0100 Resent-Message-Id: <200303282358.h2SNwAUg002175@mailgate2.uni-kl.de> Received: (qmail 10626 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 23:58:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ktown.kde.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 23:58:09 -0000 Delivered-To: kde-devel@mail.kde.org Received: (qmail 9188 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 23:56:18 -0000 Received: from snaporaz.medialogic.it (HELO medialogic.it) (qmailr@151.8.97.27) by kde.informatik.uni-kl.de with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 23:56:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 15613 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2003 00:59:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO boezio) (151.8.97.18) by 0 with SMTP; 29 Mar 2003 00:59:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Gian Filippo Pinzari Organization: NoMachine To: ltsp-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, gnome-devel-list@gnome.org, kde-devel@mail.kde.org Subject: NX Project Announcement User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, gnome-list@gnome.org, kde@mail.kde.org Message-Id: <200303290045.47778.pinzari@nomachine.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.5 tests=USER_AGENT_KMAIL version=2.52 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.52 (1.174.2.8-2003-03-24-exp) Resent-Sender: kde-devel-admin@mail.kde.org Resent-From: kde-devel@mail.kde.org X-Mailing-List: Sender: kde-devel-admin@mail.kde.org Errors-To: kde-devel-admin@mail.kde.org X-BeenThere: kde-devel@mail.kde.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kde-devel@kde.org X-Reply-To: pinzari@nomachine.com List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: For discussion of all KDE-related development issues List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:45:47 +0100 Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:58:11 +0100 X-UIDL: *=D"!$YU"!Y2o!!RTb!! 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 passoword 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. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH-- _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. 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