[Pkg-nx-group] New situation with NX 3.0 and debian

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda lepalom at wol.es
Thu Jul 5 11:17:58 UTC 2007


Hi,

I'm new in the list and I would like to help in the packaging of freeNX. 
Yesterday I met to Fabian Franz (FreeNX author) and we have been talking 
about FreeNX.

He is preparing a new structure for the code and I asked him about the 
problems of having freeNX in a debian box. It's strange but there are random 
people trying to make packages of freeNX and this group, but nothing more or 
less stable.

FreeNX it's only some scripts that use the nx-core from Nomachine. This core 
is gpl and freeNx too, so by now there's no problem about licenses. The 
source code of nx-core, I have to addmitt that I have found it like a mesh. 
There's a lot of packages and the main package nx-x11 it's a part of the 
xfree/xorg. Fabian told me that nx-core 2.x is based on "some" version of 
xfree, but the new one nx-core 3.0 is based on "some" version xorg.  

I don't understand the svn of pkg-nx group. I see that is only the debian 
part, but in the freeNX I think that it's the source code of the project. So, 
please, could someone explain me the structure and the main idea? Because in 
this repository is where the source of nx have to go or only the debian 
files?

Also, there's a project of a free client 
http://code.2x.com/linuxterminalserver/downloads 
with a GPL licences that it will be interesting to add to the project.

Well, there's a lot of things to do, but I hope that soon we will have some 
kind nice debian packages of the freenx project.

Regards,

Leo



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