NX - A Revolution In Network Computing?

Anonymous Coward writes "Judging from this interview, it looks like KDE developers have found a new toy to add to their desktop's networking capabilities. They claim to be able to cram a fullscreen KDE session -- KMail for mailing, Konqueror for file management, Mozilla for web browsing and OpenOffice for word processing -- into a 40 KBit/sec modem connection without losing responsiveness for the user experience. At aKademy, the 9 day KDE Community World Summit, a group of core developers started to work on NX/FreeNX integration to help facilitate the "re-invention of the KDE desktop environment" for KDE4. Knoppix-3.6 is the first Linux distribution to ship an integrated FreeNX server (created by Fabian Franz) with the NoMachine NX Client."

Wait isn't open source supposed to only copy

[number6x]

Wait isn't open source supposed to only copy already existing closed source technology?

How dare they be innovative.

Next thing you know linux will have a measurable and growing market share.

Then software like apache, eclipse, and jboss will be used in enterprise applications.

Oh, wait...

Never mind!

More like a revolution in

[GillBates0]

Network Komputing

/ob joce

Wow! Innovation!

[Phat_Tony]

Soon, maybe they'll invent "dumb terminals" that run all their programs off a central, "mainframe" computer!

Yay, another overloaded acronym....

[Xentax]

I know we're running out of possible acronyms that don't already stand for something, but releasing two new 'overloads' for an acronym almost at the same time sucks.

(If you're wondering, we have this NX client software, and the NX 'No-eXecute' flag on CPU's to help contain the threat posted by stack and heap overflow vulnerabilities)

We're running out of TLA space a lot faster than IPv4 space. Not as big a deal, I know, but just wait until companies start trying to brand/trademark acronyms or initialisms (for the purists out there) when there's already existing meanings for their choices...

Xentax

Re:The wierd thing is...

[stratjakt]

I was thinking the same thing.

Seems the answer to make KDE a nice responsive desktop is simple. Get two phone lines, and two modems. Phone yourself, open NX in a gnome session, connect to a KDE session. Hooray!

Re:Not Any Time Soon

[asoap]

You forgot NX - Nitrous Express [nitrousexpress.com].

Really it should be NE, but that's not as Xciting.

-Derek

Re:This Statement Is Not Supported By The Article

[archeopterix]

Is this too hard for ./'ers to comprehend?

Short Answer: Yes.

Re:Grammar nazi alert

[cpeterso]

You should just give up now. You're fighting a loosing battle..

Too many hyperlinks in story

[vlauria]

I hate when people hyperlink every [snpp.com] other [google.com] fucking [disney.com] word in a story they submit. For this post, I don't need links to Mozilla or Open Office to gain more information on the story, it's a fucking nuisence if you ask me.

Re:Educate me.

[hummassa]

It gets worse because NX server is an X client and NX client is an X server and vice-versa :-P