[FreeNX-kNX] Sponsoring FreeNX/QtNX?

Marcelo Boveto Shima marceloshima at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 17:04:00 UTC 2009


Forgot to mention that the client is a fork of the Gtk VNC Viewer and is
hosted on
https://code.launchpad.net/~freenx-team/freenx-server/eagleeye

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Marcelo Boveto Shima <
marceloshima at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Who are doing the development right now are the packages managers.
>  - Altlinux (Boris):
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/boris/packages/?p=freenx-server.git
>  - Ubuntu (me):
> https://code.launchpad.net/~freenx-team/freenx-server/teambzr<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Efreenx-team/freenx-server/teambzr>
>
> But working on FreeNX is a dead-end and it is becoming too hackish.
> So, like I said in another email, I started another NX Server some time
> ago.
>
> It is written in python, uses dbus (you can manipulate the sessions using
> dbus service),
> a legacy-free client is available (eagleeye, doesn't uses the nx user). You
> can
> mix the eagleeye client with nxclient (resume on eagleeye a session started
> by
> nxclient).
>
> What doesn't work?
> Printer and folder sharing (almost ready), load-balancing.
>
> I took a look at x2go some time ago and it seems it is not well designed
> too.
> And it don't provides nxclient compatibilty.
>
> About the funding:
> Maybe you can pay directly to a developer or maybe a reward for defined
> goals.
>
> Regards,
> Shima.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mario Fux <kde-ml at unormal.org> wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 schrieb Florian Schmidt:
>> > Hi,
>>
>> Morning together
>>
>> > I think the current problem is that the initiator and primary developer
>> > Fabian Franz isn't responding to mails on the mailinglist for a longer
>> time
>> > now, so there is currently no one who is clearly responsible for freenx
>> to
>> > whom you could make the donation. Maybe it would be a better to support
>> the
>> > project by donating a new SVN/Git Repo, Webspace a WIKI and maybe a
>> forum
>> > but this is only my 2 Cents to this topic. I think the whole freenx
>> project
>> > should decide if they still like to wait for Fabian or if they want to
>> > start the project on a new space with some more admins and decide a
>> > development core team and project space maintainers.
>>
>> Don't missunderstand me. I like, love and heavily use FreeNX, but there is
>> another project based on NX which seems very interesting and actively
>> maintained:
>> http://www.x2go.org
>> with Client for Qt/GTK, Windows, MacOSX and Nokia N800, an LDAP backend,
>> load
>> balancing, debian packages, etc. pp.
>>
>> But unfortunately neither compatible with FreeNX nor with to "old" NX.
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Florian
>>
>> griits
>> Mario
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