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Chapter 4, Related to X
#31 Run Your Desktop over the Internet
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NX, from NoMachine (http://www.nomachine.com), is an add-on to X that
accelerates remote X applications and can be used to run a full remote desk-
top at near-native speeds, even over a 56K modem connection. NX works
much like a proxy cache for the X protocol, caching and compressing
requests and responses to and from the X client and server. This dramatically
reduces the network traffic of the X protocol and works in a way that is trans-
parent to the X client. All the NX libraries and components are open source,
as is the NX client software. However, the servers NoMachine provides are
proprietary, although a free trial period of the personal edition is available,
which allows single-client access. In addition, the FreeNX project uses the
open source NX libraries to create an open source NX server. The following
examples use the personal server and client software from NoMachine.
Installing the NX Server and Client
On the machine on which you want to run the remote session, you need to
install an NX server and client. Packages for various flavors of Linux are
available from http://www.nomachine.com. Download the NX Server Per-
sonal Edition for your distribution, along with a client, and install both in
the normal way. For example:
foo@bar:~# rpm -i nxserver-1.4.0-99.i386.rpm
foo@bar:~# rpm -i nxclient-1.4.0-75.i386.rpm
On the ...