[olug] Bluetooth screen locker

Steven Susbauer stupendoussteve at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 2 23:54:34 UTC 2008


Will Langford wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM, computerguy14 Ali 
><computerguy14 at msn.com>wrote:
>
>>Anyone here tried FreeNX? I just installed in on CentOS and it is awesome
>>virtualization product. Considering myself a rookie in Linux, installing
>>FreeNX was a snap. Check it out http://www.nomachine.com
>>
>
>
>This doesn't really look like virtualization software, but more or less a
>remote desktop.
>
>Some if it looks like it could be used to act as thin client or something
>similar across a network to a centralized desktop/server farm.
>
>-Will
>
It is a remote desktop solution, and well suited to a thin client. NX
itself is very responsive and takes very little bandwidth, it is also
encrypted by default unlike VNC, and supports such things as sound
forwarding.

FreeNX itself is at http://freenx.berlios.de/

Steve





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