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NoMachine NX is awesome

By David Grant - Posted on 10 February 2010

Short-version:
Use NX. VNC sucks.

I love Remote Desktop for connecting to Windows machines remotely. I worked from home many times while at Kodak and if it weren't for Remote Desktop, it would have been impossible to enjoy a full-screen connection to my work desktop while at home. I didn't think there was anything for Linux besides VNC until now (I had used remote X a long time ago though, to connect to the Solaris machines at UBC). Then I discovered NoMachine NX (NoMachine is the company's name and NX is the product name). I downloaded the Free Edition for Linux and then grabbed the Windows Client (which apparently is also free?). It's ridiculously fast, as fast as Remote Desktop. Google is also working on neatx an open-source NX server implementation and there is the freenx project, a GPL-licensed implementation of the server and client components. If you are trying to connect to a Linux desktop remotely, don't even think about using any of the VNC derivatives. Use NX.

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Thanks for the review
Submitted by John Watts (not verified) on Thu, 2010-02-11 20:14.

David,

Thanks for the glowing review of NoMachine NX. We are happy that you have found that it helps you out with your remote access needs.

All of our NX Client software is free as well as the NX Free Edition Server product.

You also mentioned connecting to Solaris machines. We also offer the NX Free Edition Server for Solaris SPARC if it would provide a benefit for you.

In the next release, NX 4.x, we will be offering a NX Server for Windows as well.

Keep on NX'ing!

Thanks again,

/John Watts
NoMachine Americas

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2011-12-16 07:51.

The installation/configuration/server launch is just too confusing and doesn't make a bit of sense

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