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Yeah, I've seen it in action (nomachine/nx) It's not bad. But problem is that it's not open source, so it's sort of DOA, unlike all the open options. They shoul
by shmerl 1y ago
Yeah, I've seen it in action (nomachine/nx) It's not bad. But problem is that it's not open source, so it's sort of DOA, unlike all the open options. They should have opened it from the start for it to be relevant.
- wkat4242 1y agoFreeNX is open source.
- shmerl 1y agoInteresting, hasn't heard of it. Is it the same in features? It doesn't seem to support Wayland though.
- wkat4242 1y agoYes it is a direct clone from the earlier NoMachine NX. That was open source, and later they moved to a new closed-source protocol. FreeNX took the earlier one over. And no it doesn't support Wayland of course. It's an X11 accelerator, the design is heavily connected to the X11 design. It doesn't replace X11's remote display support, it just augments it. Wayland doesn't have that at all so there is no point there. It basically removes the many round-trips in the protocol that increase latency, by caching values locally. And it can also keep the session alive when disconnected, similar to what termux or screen do for SSH.