Herman Bos open source guerilla

4Sep/058

Multimedia with FreeNX

I just played some music on my terminal server and it came through flawlessly. Now I only need an NX client and I can listen to my favourite music anywhere (where broadband is available ;) )! I was able to play some video files as well but it only worked when resized to a small window. If anyone managed to play video files over NX decently please let me know. Currently nxagent seems to eat cpu and I don't know if its possible to avoid this.

Working with FreeNX 1.5.0 (Seveas' repository) and the official NX client from NoMachine now.

As a comment: Everything seems to work fine in breezy, in hoary the sound didn't work for me (for some unknown reason).

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13Aug/052

Tweaking Ubuntu for Terminal server use

First I have to say I'm really positive about FreeNX. The performance is great and looks really scalable. I can really recommend it if your setting up a Linux terminal server. It is much more flexible, easy and future-proof then a setup using XDMCP. And its even supposed to be usable if you connect over a modem line (cannot test that myself :D ). For the windows kids, its somewhat comparable with RDP but much nicer (ofcourse ;) ).

Currently working on speeding up GNOME somewhat. So it will eat less memory and less cpu. Next thing is to make some scripts to add users with complete or stripped/locked-down GNOME environment. Don't want to confuse poor lusers with too many options. :D End of the day I should have build a custom kernel for the machine so I can build a security policy for the server somewhere next week. That would finished it up mostly I guess.

When I finished this setup I'm thinking about making it available on fry as well if some users are interested. Should use that 1GB ram a bit more. :D

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