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OSNews: NX–Revolution of Network Computing?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2004

[ Thanks to Kurt
Pfeifle
for this link. ]

“FreeNX, presented as a preview during LinuxTag2004 by Fabian
Franz (Knoppix Developer) and Kurt Pfeifle (KDE Project), is a Free
Software NX Server based on the GPL’d libraries from NoMachine.
After the aKademy week (where for nine days more than 400 KDE
contributors and visitors plan to work on the next generation KDE)
Fabian and Kurt plan to release a first snapshot of the FreeNX
server under the GPL license for the first time. During aKademy, a
few KDE hackers are working on the integration of an NX Client into
the KDE framework. Knoppix-3.6 also will contain a first preview on
FreeNX. Golem.de, a German IT news site talked to Fabian and Kurt
just before aKademy…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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