[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX gets Client Infrastructure

[Fabian Franz]

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The Internet, 11th of March 2005,

The FreeNX project is glad to announce that two independent client
projects have joined the FreeNX efforts.

  1) nxc project lead by Lawrence Roufail.
  2) gnx project lead by Gustavo Noronha Silva.

Both projects provide their source code under the GPL license.

About the nxc project
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nxc is an OS-independent nx(client/connect) library. It allows writing
a very simple NX client with just about 10 lines of C++ code.

nxc also includes two sample client implementations:

  1) moznx -- a browser plugin for mozilla based browsers
  2) nxrun -- a very simple, but complete command line client

Note that the nxcompsh, nxdriver and nxrun parts of nxc are based on
initial work done by NoMachine which was released under the GPL. This
initial code was polished up by Lawrence and brought up to date. It
now works with both, commercial 1.4.0 versions as well as FreeNX
1.4.0-02 (aka FreeNX 0.2.4 - 0.3.0).

nxc does currently build and work on Linux and Windows systems.

You can find more detailed information about moznx on Lawrence's home
page:

    http://home.nc.rr.com/moznx/

The newest nxc source code has now been checked into the FreeNX CVS
at Berlios:

    http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freenx/nxc/

The nxc code, though working well, is by	 far not finished, yet. There
are many more features to be included, and weaknesses and some bugs
to be fixed. Also, it needs to remain in sync with the ongoing work
done by NoMachine's development team to enhance the NX protocol and
add exciting new features to the NX technology.

So volunteers to help with nxc development, documentation or promotion are
welcomed by Lawrence.

About the gNX project
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gNX ships two modules:

  1) gnx -- A client written in python with a nice gtk gui in initial
     development stage.
  2) thinnx -- A very thin GTK-1.2 client written in pure C for
     the ThinStation project.

You can find the newest gNX source code in the FreeNX SVN repository:

  http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/freenx/


About FreeNX
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The growing FreeNX Team does welcome anybody who wants to help with
development efforts.

 * If you can't code, maybe you are good in writing documentation?
 * If you don't like to write documentation, maybe you like to do
   presentations and demonstrations of NX and FreeNX at your LUG,
   at a tradeshow, or at some Open Source/FOSS/Linux event?
 * If you don't like to appear on a public forum, maybe you could
   provide FreeNX developers with a remote login account on one of
   your systems, so we have a broader base for testing and bug
   hunting, as well as for demos and presentation?
 * If you don't have a publicly accessible Linux/Unix server, maybe
   you want to donate a small sum so we can rent a root server from
   a hosting provider?

Thank you & Cheers,

  Fabian Franz
  Gustavo Noronha Silva
  Kurt Pfeifle
  Lawrence Roufail
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