"2X today announced the release of 2X TerminalServer for Linux, an open source terminal server for Linux, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection. "If Linux is going to happen on the desktop, it will require a terminal server approach such as that of 2X Terminal Server for Linux. Only with the more advanced thin client approach, will Linux be able to outdo Windows fat clients in a company's network. 2X is proud to contribute to this by opening the source code of its terminal server software for Linux."
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True, but at the end of the day; if you have a pretty large organisation; grab yourself 8 way dual core opteron server, load it to the gills with memory, throw on Solaris with Sunray or Linux/FreeBSD/etc with NX Server, and voila, you have a system that could quite easily provide a stable environment to run Evolution, OpenOffice.org and other office related applications.
What is holding the adoption of thin clients back isn't the operating systems; the operating systems like *NIX are aalready stable and scalable enough to be able to handle large numbers of users accessing simultaneously, what is required is more mainstream application software vendors like Adobe, Corel and the likes to come on board, and start providing their applications.
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2006-01-09
I don´t know about this 2X thing, but FreeNX is one of the most impressive pieces of software that I have ever seen on my life. They managed to get make this thing incredibly fast even by tunneling it through SSH. Like the first poster said, it is insanely faster than RDP to the point that it can be fairly usable on a slow dial-up connection.
On a 512 Kb/s DSL link, it almost feels like you´re sitting in front of the machine, even using 16 bit for color depth.