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Free NX
Posted: Sun 04 Jan 2009, 11:56
by rblee
I've just installed 4.1.2 on a Wyse Winterm. Whereas these two things were made for each other, a big exception is NX, which seems to cause people problems, judging by some accounts.
There is a .pup for Puppy 2 or 3 (2 I think) available from one of the main puppy repositories, sorry - can't remember which one, it was late - which just installs and works! No muss, no fuss. Puppy gives a number of warnings about how it's deprecated, how you should only use stuff approved for your puppy version, how you might catch athlete's foot from dodgy old packages etc., but if you just ignore all this sage advice it just goes ahead and works anyway.
If anyone can tell me how to identify this, I'll post a link to it.
This is one app that might be worth including as standard. It's the unix equivalent of RDP, but sooo much better.
Posted: Sun 04 Jan 2009, 13:16
by Aitch
Posted: Sun 04 Jan 2009, 15:14
by rblee
Hi Aitch,
I found the link:
http://rs59.rapidshare.com/files/105379 ... nt_1_5.pup
I don't know whether the 1_5 is the Puppy version it's aimed at or the version of Puppy (seems unlikely).
Whatever - It goes in without problems and works straight away.
Many thanks to all those that made this happen! I hope it either gets included in the distro or is kept up to date - It's an important application for me.
Posted: Sun 04 Jan 2009, 15:31
by Aitch
Hi
I think the 1.5 is the NX version
I also found the Centos/FreeNX Howto here
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
Maybe someone could build a .pet for current puppies?
Aitch
Posted: Wed 06 Jun 2012, 16:31
by stvnx7
What about a NX server? Most links / articles I see are in regards to installing an NX client on Puppy Linux. I'd like to install an NX server so that I can log into Puppy Linux remotely.
Posted: Sat 09 Jun 2012, 02:03
by Aitch
It looks as though it was tried a few years ago, but with 2.17....there were user issues
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23838
NX seems to be only a free version, [unspecified if client/server] or evaluation version, both client and server....and they may need compiling...?
http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
What about tightVNC?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27424
last reported working in 3.01 and 4.0....
or 4.21
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52859
or realVNC - There are two different versions; one for Puppy 4.1/4.2/4.3 and one for Puppy 5.1/5.2
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63122
good luck
Aitch
Posted: Mon 11 Jun 2012, 13:59
by stvnx7
Thanks for the post Aitch.
I wanted to try and use and NX-based remote desktop since I have found it to be a lot better in situations were bandwidth is an issue.
I imagine that where bandwidth is not a problem, VNC-based solutions are better since they seem to be a lot more popular / supported.
NX also requires a multi-user system, which I think might be a problem with Puppy.
I'll be moving soon and won't have the bandwidth issue, so I'll probably implement a VNC-based solution then.