[HLUG] was community first Scrubus , now nxserver

[Julian Robbins]

j michaelson wrote:

>nice one julian,
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>the nx thing sounds cool, i might look into that.
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>john michaelson.
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There is the nxserver which where the underlying code is GPL but the 
extra bits and bobs , 'the ploish' is commercial. This is from the 
company called NoMachine. Not too expensive either compared to competing 
technologies.

There is a totally free version of NX called FreeNX which uses the 
NoMachine GPL code but is totally free. But its not so polished as the 
Nomachine stuff. Nomachine are very good at supporting their product 
too, they were very helpful when I had problems, even when mine was out 
of its support period, they still helped;-)

Easiest way to test it is to try the nxserver on recent Knoppix CD's 
(DVD's).

Julian

>On 2/3/06, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>j michaelson wrote:
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>>>hello julian,
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>>>sian told me that the person at community first who is interested in
>>>learning scribus is their Web Development person, Jackie Carey
>>>(jackiec at comfirst.org.uk).
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>>I've met Jackie a couple of times. She's hoping to come to a LUG meeting
>>when the weather warms up.
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>>With reagrds to Scribus, I am currently using it to do all our
>>datasheets at work (migrating from Coreldraw). In fact, I'm doing it a
>>slightly more interesting way. ie I have a Linux server running NX which
>>allows remote access to the server with Scribus on it, a bit like VNC on
>>steroids. NX is wonderful, it really does run well, ie you can control a
>>whole desktop 1024x768 or more, 24 bit colour over an ADSL line really
>>well. You can run it on much less ie a ISDN of even dial up to an extent.
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>>This way, i have centralised the application, ie Scribus, and jsut
>>install the NX client on user pc's. You have full control then of the
>>settings for every user. So far so good.
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>>If I get a minute I 'll get in touch with Jackie re Scribus. I did
>>mention to her that there is now a Windows port of Scribus which is
>>shaping up well.
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>>Julian
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>>>john michaelson.
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