#NOMACHINE NX CLIENT FREE#

Part of the high quality compression is that they compress the data in the connection protocol, X11, VNC, or Radmin, instead of compressing the stream of data, as happens with say SSH compression. This feature alone is amazingly useful, but combined wtih the built-in compression it works very well. Disconnect? Okay, I’ll just sit here and suspend your session and wait for you to come back. Not so with NX which appears to be the equivalent of screen for X. It is particularly bad at handling network issues I’ve found, where it will infrequently just hang the connection, causing you to lose all of your window placements.

Whatever, Xming is often slow and sometimes iffy (to the point where I never felt comfortable purchasing the latest version). I think its the compression or something, or maybe that its a dedicated protocol server and client, and Xming is implementing X11 directly.

#NOMACHINE NX CLIENT FREE#

It also gives me a great excuse to use NX which is, it must be said, far better than the other free Xserver for Windows, Xming. Its a way to wean myself from Windows, to run a test environment with yet another web browser (ok, so its Firefox, but still), while at the same time playing with VM’s (and X11 as I used to do). Its kinda wierd, but cool in some respects as half of my computer is now running CentOS pretty much literally since half the RAM can be used by it and since I connect via NX client it sits in a window which lives on a second monitor. I use NX Client from Nomachine to connect to one of my boxes, or more accurately, to a copy of CentOS 5.2 I’m running in a VirtualBox virtualbox that I run on my Windows box.

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