[ale] Best, Secure, Fast Remote Desktop?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 09:43 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I'm looking into x2go now. It's not up and running yet but it seems to
> be a complete fork of nx so I expect the same feature set.

I'm not sure I would call it a "complete fork of nx" but rather a
separate package based on the NX libraries.  It's not compatible with
any of the NX clients (NoMachine, FreeNX, or Remmina) and you have to
use their client with their server.

Mike

> On Jun 3, 2014 9:33 AM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>         Every year or so, I look for a better way to handle remote
>         desktops for the 2%
>         of the time I need one.  ssh works the other 98% of the time.
>         
>         For the last 3+ yrs, FreeNX + remote NoMachine v3.5.x client
>         (Linux/Windows) has
>         been working extremely well. I'm using it now. I understand
>         that FreeNX isn't
>         working on Ubuntu 14.04 (yet?),
>         
>         Requirements:
>         * Linux-based remote desktops (don't want Windows)
>         * secure (key based); MANDATORY
>         * stable; MANDATORY
>         * fast performance for "productivity apps"; MANDATORY
>         * Clients must support Windows and Linux, Android is
>         nice-to-have
>         * install from well-known repos, PPAs - NOT SOURCE
>         * F/LOSS
>         * don't need video streaming and
>         * audio is nice-to-have
>         
>         Has anyone switched over to x2go since FreeNX seems abandoned?
>         http://askubuntu.com/questions/466309/freenx-server-installation-on-ubuntu-14-04-trusty
>         
>         If so, how is the performance, usability, stability of x2go?
>         Is the performance similar to NX or better?
>         
>         Has anyone setup a Guacamole server? This is a HTML5,
>         web-based remote desktop.
>         I'm less thrilled about allowing the entire world access to
>         the front-door of a
>         network. Would only deploy this with a VPN mandatory. Still -
>         any users out there?
>         
>         Respect to RDP and VNC users, but compared to NX performance -
>         those are dogs
>         and both require a separate tunnel/vpn for security. I
>         actually remote into NX,
>         then connect to Windows machines with RDP on the same LAN.
>         Works good enough.
>         
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