Say goodbye to SunRay servers and all the thin clients that never lived up to their promise.

Imagine real virtual KVM switches without hardware. Image lightening-fast thin clients that use tiny amounts of bandwidth and handle audio and video, printing and session suspension instead of termination. Here is a quote:įor technically inclined people, imagine X server technology with compression so tight that GNOME and KDE sessions run over modems with SSH encryption. If you're not familiar with FreeNX, I suggest you read this article on Linux Journal. Because FreeNX is so fast, the speed is the same or better, plus you get the option of Terminal Services and Remote X sessions (so, yes, you can run Linux on Windows remotely). The session is SSL encrypted and you are proxied to the VNC server. You connect to the Freenx server with a free Nomachine client using WiKID credentials. You can set up Freenx on a Linux box with two Ethernet cards, one on the Internet and one on your LAN.

This is very interesting, because it creates a two-factor authentication, SSL-encrypted gateway mechanism for VNC. These instructions will help you use WiKID Strong Authentication with FreeNX.