Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

If you’ve not come across it before, NoMachine’s nxserver is the closest things Linux has atm to Microsoft’s Terminal Services / Remote Desktop feature. With every release, it’s getting closer and closer to being a real equivalent (the upcoming v1.5.0 looks like addressing the main missing feature).

If you don’t want to pay for support (or you’re not an opensource dev; these people generously give license keys out for free folks!), then there’s always Fabian Franz’s GPL’d alternative, FreeNX. On Gentoo, I always make sure that the nxserver-freenx package is a drop-in replacement for NoMachine’s commercial package, so that you can choose which one you prefer to use.

I’ve spent the evening catching up on long-standing bugs assigned to the NX Herd. We now have FreeNX-0.4.0 in the Portage tree, and I’m finally happy that the commercial packages for nxserver-1.4 can be unmasked. I’m still waiting to hear back on some test reports, but hopefully everything made it into CVS tonight

A big thank you to Jon Severinsson for all the bug fixing he’s been doing over the last few months.