NX Nomachine a VNC substitute server / client
program which is outstandingly fast on slow network
connections
NX Nomachine was recommended by Dave just a month ago, but I
forgot to mention about it here on my blog.
NX Nomachine in reality is doing the same thing as a normal
VNC server or even a normal
XServer / xinit remote
connection that enables you to use your remote desktop on either
Linux, Windows or Solaris.
The program is not free software and costs money, however for a
personal use it's freely available and can be directly grabbed and
installed.
I've tested the
NX Nomachine and I should say the
respondance it demonstrates is really amazingly quick
Even on my slow low band internet it flies and the connection to
the remote
NX Nomachine Server behaves exactly as it's
running directly on your current host from which you issue the NX
no machine client.
Nevertheless the free version of the nx nomachine is really
annoying since, with the free version release you can't use
applications which require a superuser privileges. However for
console administration sudo is working so at least this is
something.
I have installed the
NX Nomachine client on Debian thus I'll
describe how to install and start using the
NX client on
this Linux platform.
To install the
nx nomachine client on my Debian Linux, I
followed these steps:
1. Download the deb package (Suitable for both Debian and
Ubuntu)
The download link for Linux at this time is:
Download NX
Nomachine Linux
or use the
nomachine debian download link
I used wget to download as I'm quite used to it;
debian:~# wget
http://64.34.161.181/download/3.4.0/Linux/nxclient_3.4.0-7_i386.deb
2. Next and last step before you're ready to launch nx nomachine is
install the client program:
debian:~# dpkg -i
nxclient_3.4.0-7_i386.deb
This will have installed the nxclient; To further start the
nxclient from your terminal issue:
debian:~# /usr/NX/bin/nxclient
Now if you have a remote
nx nomachine server server you can
enjoy the quickness of this program, it will be most probably like
working on your workstation locally :)