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dot.KDE: Dutch Agency Equips 200 Users With NX-based KDE Desktops

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 1, 2005

[ Thanks to Jens Sandtorv for this
link. ]

“Last weekend at Annahoeve in Achtmaal the Dutch Refugee Council
of Midden Gelderland announced that they succesfully completed a
pilot where they migrated 100 machines and 200 users using NX
technology and the KDE desktop. Jasper van der Marel held a
presentation during the Dutch KDE-PIM meeting where he explained
how the current setup was done.

“The goal was reduce costs and to be less dependant on closed
source software. At first the Dutch Refugee Council opted for a
LTSP solution but because this was missing some serious compression
features they choose the NX technology from NoMachine…”

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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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