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I don’t know what these guys are using, but there is remote desktop technology out there that is fast enough to let me play games and watch videos on the server

by arm 12y ago

I don’t know what these guys are using, but there is remote desktop technology out there that is fast enough to let me play games and watch videos on the server with minimal lag (so useable in fact, that I’ve been using my Mac mini that way through a Windows laptop for over a year now). I’m talking about NX¹ (specifically, I use NoMachine²). ―――――― ¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology ² — https://www.nomachine.com/ https://www.nomachine.com/

drzaiusapelord 12y ago
Looks like the NX guys are folding shop to be pay only software and FreeNX doesn't have a client for Windows and other OS's http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1227519 http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1227519 Looks like yet another endless FOSS forking contest. NX > FreeNX > X2Go. Hopefully X2Go sticks. Looks good so far, it has the NX back-end but they have their own clients, Windows too.
jdc0589 12y ago
When I was in school (not all that long ago), we had a couple large centos servers, and a ton of cheap workstations that did nothing but server as NX Clients for the most part. Everyone just logged on to their account on the cent servers for anything Computer Science related. It worked pretty well.
gcb0 12y ago
nx is the same as the most expensive tiers of vnc in my experience. my employer buys both. but, people already forgot about OnLive? the company that streamed games in a way you could play multiplayer shoothers rendered in a server.
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- ekianjo 12y ago
  > people already forgot about OnLive NVidia just announced today at the GDC they would be doing the same thing, at a premium cost, at full 1080p, 60 fps streaming.
- freehunter 12y ago
  Man I loved OnLive. I used to use that (and Quake Live) on my netbook in between classes in college. Now we've gone backwards in time to needing gaming-class desktops again. Shame.
lectrick 12y ago
Is there a free or cheap way to run NX/NoMachine on just a couple of my own machines, to have a look? Their "enterprisey" server products have enterprisey prices.
- arm 12y ago
  Hmm? Yes, the non-enterprise version of NoMachine is free: https://www.nomachine.com/getting-started-with-nomachine https://www.nomachine.com/getting-started-with-nomachine (Note: it includes both client and server functionality).

by arm 12y ago

drzaiusapelord 12y ago

Looks like the NX guys are folding shop to be pay only software and FreeNX doesn't have a client for Windows and other OS's http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1227519 http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1227519 Looks like yet another endless FOSS forking contest. NX > FreeNX > X2Go. Hopefully X2Go sticks. Looks good so far, it has the NX back-end but they have their own clients, Windows too.

jdc0589 12y ago

When I was in school (not all that long ago), we had a couple large centos servers, and a ton of cheap workstations that did nothing but server as NX Clients for the most part. Everyone just logged on to their account on the cent servers for anything Computer Science related. It worked pretty well.

gcb0 12y ago

nx is the same as the most expensive tiers of vnc in my experience. my employer buys both. but, people already forgot about OnLive? the company that streamed games in a way you could play multiplayer shoothers rendered in a server.

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ekianjo 12y ago
> people already forgot about OnLive NVidia just announced today at the GDC they would be doing the same thing, at a premium cost, at full 1080p, 60 fps streaming.
freehunter 12y ago
Man I loved OnLive. I used to use that (and Quake Live) on my netbook in between classes in college. Now we've gone backwards in time to needing gaming-class desktops again. Shame.

lectrick 12y ago

Is there a free or cheap way to run NX/NoMachine on just a couple of my own machines, to have a look? Their "enterprisey" server products have enterprisey prices.

arm 12y ago
Hmm? Yes, the non-enterprise version of NoMachine is free: https://www.nomachine.com/getting-started-with-nomachine https://www.nomachine.com/getting-started-with-nomachine (Note: it includes both client and server functionality).