Re: [coLinux-devel] NX + coLinux = Killer App

[Nathan C. <nat...@ya...>]

Hi Dan,

Ok, so you've got me on the multimedia side (no
streaming audio via a VNC session), but I can always
play mp3's on my local/host system (whether it's
Windows or Linux).

1)  Resumable sessions are a must for me.  In fact, it
is for this reason that I have always wondered why
people run proprietary, commercial Xservers on their
Windows box.  The company I work for has thousands of
licenses for such products when VNC is free.  My
primary system is a Windows laptop (I support Windows
users).  My laptop is in and out of standby mode and
is frequently on and off of the network.  Sometimes it
is connected via ethernet, and sometimes wireless or
dialup.  I need to be able to reboot my laptop
(another security patch) and come right back to the
same session on my Linux box (I don't want to have to
restart all of my apps).  

Some of my customers refuse to reboot their Windows
machines because they have remote applications running
simulations and they need to continue to run for hours
to complete a simulation or something.  If they were
running VNC, they wouldn't have to worry about
terminating their Xsession in order to reboot the
client machine.

2)  VNC is free!

3)  Accessing Windows shares???  I do this all the
time via either smbclient (console) or konqueror
(GUI).  

So, I'm glad that NX meets some people's needs.  I am
a big fan of capitolism.  But, I will be sticking with
VNC, as it is free, meets my needs (resumable
sessions, tunneled over VNC, and I can already access
Windows shares), and NX doesn't seem to offer me
anything worth paying for.

I do appreciate your mention of this application.  It
isn't for me, but I'm sure that someone else will find
this to be a killer app.

Regards,
:-)
-Nathan Chilton

--- Dan Milisic <dmi...@ca...> wrote:
> Off the top of my head...
> 
> - Multimedia Support (For example, streaming .mp3's
> with xmms)
> 
> - NX will let you access Windows share points on the
> local machine 
> you're running NX Client on... whether it be the
> VM's host or another 
> box on the 'net.
> 
> VNC has its place but that's two very useful things
> it can't do.
> VNC has resumeable sessions, NX does not (yet). 
> Both are very much 
> cross-platform.
> 
> D.
> 
> Nathan Chilton wrote:
> 
> >I always tunnel my VNC sessions through SSH... so,
> why
> >should I use NX instead?
> >
> >--Nathan
> >
> >
> >--- Dan Milisic <dmi...@ca...> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi...
> >>
> >>Has anyone else tried NX under coLinux?  It's
> truly
> >>amazing...  I had 
> >>trouble getting NX to run on the coLinux
> 'standard'
> >>Debian image 
> >>yesterday, so I cooked up a Fedora Core 2 image
> and
> >>installed the NX 
> >>Server Personal Edition without any problems.
> >>
> >>NX Provides X11 while the coLinux VM hums along in
> >>the background.  
> >>Here's a screenshot of NX running a Gnome 2.6
> >>session on my dual-head 
> >>WinXP notebook:
> >>
> >>http://66.207.121.60/harmony.jpg
> >>
> >>Set-up is very simple -- all that needs to be done
> >>is install the NX 
> >>Server .rpm on the coLinux 'virtual' machine and
> >>install the NX Client 
> >>exe on the Windows machine.  In my situation I use
> >>NAT to network 
> >>coLinux.  Accessing the coLinux VM from anywhere
> on
> >>the 'Net (securely) 
> >>is as simple as forwarding port 22 in Windows ICS
> >>(Internet Connection 
> >>Sharing) to the coLinux machine's private IP, and
> >>hitting the external 
> >>IP of  your Windows box with the NX Client.  NX
> will
> >>tunnel X over SSH 
> >>so this is much more desirable than VNC. 
> >>Performance and stability have 
> >>been great thusfar. 
> >>
> >>FYI, The FC2 Linux install is a 1GB compressed
> image
> >>(approximately 
> >>400MB compressed).  If there's interest I can
> upload
> >>it to anyone who 
> >>wants to host and share.  Gnome 2.6 is sweet!
> >>
> >>D.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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