[FreeNX-kNX] PPC Linux NX Client?

[Gregory Carter]

I do not have such a link to Nomachine's site to the sources in the README.

Given the history of the commercial product, I haven't kept up on what 
is open source and what is not.

Although, adding this information below to the README would certainly be 
helpful to those not on the list.

-gc

Alastair Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Gregory Carter wrote:
>   
>> Yeah, you are not going to be using make utils to compile it.
>>
>> I downloaded it and it appears to be some sort of IDE config.
>>
>> I instantly thought it was Kdevelop, so I tried loading that up but the
>> project file I think is for qmake.
>>     
>
> Instructions are in the README for both nxcl and qtnx, with George making a 
> correction about the use of qmake for qtnx. The previous poster obviously 
> missed this bit which is needed to generate ./configure and the Makefiles for 
> nxcl:
> 	autoreconf -is
>
>   
>> I do not like the fact that it would appear that this client uses closed
>> free binaries from nx.
>>     
>
> If you're talking about libXcomp, nxssh and nxproxy these are released under 
> GPL by nomachine. George's README even inclides a link to the sources:
> 	http://www.nomachine.com/sources.php
>
>   
>> I could be wrong, but although the library is free from NX, you do not
>> get the source code.
>>
>> When we are talking about such basic things as connecting people
>> remotely to services, through a computer network, I like to have the
>> source code to audit everything.
>>
>> Since I did not see a source rpm for the nx libs, I didn't bother
>> figuring out how to build it.
>>     
>
> Source RPMs for nx libs are in the Fedora repositories. Tarballs are at the 
> nomachine link above.
>
>   
>> -gc
>>
>> Joe Baker wrote:
>>     
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>>> George Wright wrote:
>>> | On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:34:47 Joe Baker wrote:
>>> |> Thanks Seb, I'll give qtnx and nxcl a try tonight if I can manage the
>>>
>>> time.
>>>
>>> | Do let me know how you get on with qtnx/nxcl. I made a 0.9 release
>>>
>>> this week.
>>>
>>> | The instructions in the README are fairly comprehensive but you'll
>>>
>>> need to
>>>
>>> | run "qmake qtnx.pro" instead of just "qmake" when building qtnx.
>>>
>>> I dropped into the nxcl directory and tried:
>>> ./configure
>>>
>>> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> - --
>>> Joe Baker
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