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:2005-07-06
No it doesn't. NX only reconnects to sessions that it has initiated by itself.
You can certainly do desktop sharing and console access with NX. It has appeared in version 3 of the protocol. What's more, you can forward sessions to multiple machines.
Really though, you want an awful lot more than that from your chosen terminal services protocol, especially when you're competing with RDP.
You can't login via GDM, leave home and connect to the same session at work.
Yes you can, but why you'd want to reconnect to the same session when you can log out securely and connect, I have no idea. It's rather like trying to turn a multi-user system like Linux into Windows 95.
Member since:2008-02-03
> 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.
No, it does. You can connect to any X session, even initiated by GDM.
Again, stop talking about things you don't know and check the facts.
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2005-07-26
> 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/