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).
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 
). 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. 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.
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