
Google implemented Neatx because the company operates a large number of Issues, but we're confident interested developers will be able to fix Neatx was also able to reuse some code fromĪnother Google Open Source project, Ganeti. The exception of very few wrapper scripts in BASH and one program written Maintainability in mind, Neatx minimizes the number of involved processesĪnd all code is split into several libraries.

Google designed Neatx, a new implementation,ĭesigned from scratch with flexibility and Making FreeNX difficult to maintain." That's why some developers at " written in a mix of several thousand lines of BASH, Expect and C, A new NX server from scratchĭisappointed in FreeNX development. The Debian/Ubuntu repository has become the "upstream"įor Gentoo's FreeNX package. It is becoming too hackish." He decided to write his own FreeNX The FreeNX mailing list: " Working on FreeNX is a dead-end and Marcelo Boveto Shima, one of the maintainers, Official FreeNX server doesn't have, such as shadowing local X sessions and These maintainers push appropriate patches to their branchĪnd thus have the most up-to-date repository, with some extra features the Packagers have essentially picked up the development. To start the project on a new space with some more admins and decide aĭevelopment core team and project space maintainers.īecause upstream FreeNX development has stalled, downstream Project should decide if they still like to wait for Fabian or if they want

Franz hasn't responded to e-mails on the developer mailing list forĪ long time and he seems to be the only one able to check code into the However, after a number of years the FreeNX project is facing some serious

In 2004, Fabian Franz implemented FreeNX, a GPL implementation of an NX It wasn't very long before free-as-in-speech NX clients emerged, then, NoMachine offers free (as in beer)Ĭlient and server software for various operating systems, including Was developed by the Italian company NoMachine, which released the source The NX protocol, using SSH as a transport and for authentication, Remote machine, just as if they were sitting in front of it. But, unlike screen, a Neatx user has access to the GUI of the Moreover, theĪnd resumed later from another computer, resembling the functionality thatĬonsole sessions. So with Neatx, users can log in to a remote Linux desktop. Protocol compresses X requests and reduces round-trips, resulting in muchīetter performance - to the point that it can be used over network Window System has issues with network latency and bandwidth, the NX

Looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. According to the announcement, Google has been Much fanfare, it also quietly released Neatx,Īn open source NX server. On July 7, internet search giant Google not only announced its operating This article was contributed by Koen Vervloesem
