Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 22:29 UTC, submitted by Nemilar
"Its official release is just under three months away, and Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, promises some great improvements over the already user-friendly Ubuntu 7.10 (also known as Gusty Gibbon). This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the applications that are now included by default and the major changes that will improve stability and usability. Among these are the addition of Firefox 3 and Remote Desktop on the applications side, and a new method for systems control known as Policy Kit, which enables the administrator to unlock certain functions for normal users."
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Member since:2008-02-03
> Besides, you can't have NX on a running session. That means you
> can't just share your current desktop like the example tells..
> so there's no remore support and such with NX.
Please, check your facts. NX does that also.
> And just for the record... VLC runs pretty fine over broadband.
Just for the record, VNC is slow also on a LAN.
Member since:2005-07-26
> Besides, you can't have NX on a running session. That means you
> can't just share your current desktop like the example tells..
> so there's no remote support and such with NX.
Please, check your facts. NX does that also.
> can't just share your current desktop like the example tells..
> so there's no remote support and such with NX.
Please, check your facts. NX does that also.
No it doesn't. NX only reconnects to sessions that it
has initiated by itself. You can't login via GDM, leave home and connect to the same session at work.
You can do that with VNC for instance by using this method:
http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
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2005-07-26
Hardy installs by default with a Remote Desktop utility, allowing users to connect to your X session either locally or over the web.
VNC for remote desktop? Over the web? Ughhhhhh. If you want to really impress me, use something that does remote desktop so well you can't even tell the difference between local and remote, even over restricted bandwidth. Start using NX for remote desktop management and terminal services. It even uses SSH transparently, and you can pipe individual applications to boot.
I had the same thought. But I think they need to do some extra fiddling with the implementation to make it not fsck up with the compiz/aiglx thing. I'm not sure, but I just imagine that VLC is a lot easier to implement.
Besides, you can't have NX on a running session. That means you can't just share your current desktop like the example tells.. so there's no remore support and such with NX.
And just for the record... VLC runs pretty fine over broadband. But how it handles a running compiz-session... I don't know.