[FreeNX-kNX] Release: FreeNX 0.7.1 "Hip Hop Edition"

[Alastair Johnson]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Glenn Giersdorf wrote:
> First off thanks the NX client and server combo is fantastic, but i
> have recently switched to OSX (apple) and wondering if you have or
> know a way to get freeNX server working on them? VNC is too slow and
> NX runs fast as local from Linux/Unix so there must be a way to get
> this working for apple OS's?

The NX libs clearly can work under OSX since there's a Mac client. Whether 
anyone's ever managed to compile them separately for a Mac is another matter 
entirely. FreeNX is a written in shell scripts which should run fine too. 
There may be some dependencies that need compiling if they aren't already 
present, but most of those are gnu tools anyway. 

BUT...

NX accelerates remote X displays. As i understand it Apple don't use X for 
their display, though you can add support for X under OSX. I suspect NX on a 
Mac would let you run X apps but not those native to the Apple GUI. This is 
probably not what you want, but if you've decided to ditch the native Mac GUI 
and use kde or gnome it may be just the job ;-)

Given how little time I've spent in front of a Mac this could be completely 
wrong though...