![]() As great as it is, the X Window protocol is terribly “network intensive”. Strictly speaking, you don’t need NX at all to run one or many Linux graphical programs remotely. What does NX really offer?Īt first sight, NX may seem not much of a big deal, if not a useless piece of software: after all, running graphical applications remotely ( network transparency in technical lingo) has been a wonderful, standard feature of the X Window system since the 80s. I’ll explain why you would want to run an NX client and server on the same computer at the end, after looking at the basic features of NX. In plain English, this means having the full graphical desktops you’d normally enjoy on a certain host computer (the NX server) on that computer or from remote ones running NX clients (including Windows or Mac boxes!), just as if you were sitting in front of the server. NX is the collective name for a protocol and a series of server and client programs for an apparently pointless, but in practice, really useful task: running local or remote X sessions on Linux or Solaris hosts. Marco Fioretti makes the case for using the NX client to run local or remote X sessions on Linux or Solaris hosts. Running remote sessions with NX on Linux or Solaris hosts
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