After the live ebuild version in the NX overlay, I’ve added the newly released 0.9 version of nxcl (base library)/qtnx (QT4 front-end), a GPL client for NX servers. For now I’ve keyworded them on x86 and amd64 (where I could test them), but who knows, it may work on other arches, where the official nxclient is not available!
Be warned that some options may be missing or incomplete, when compared to nxclient. But all the basics are there 🙂
In the meantime, a new FreeNX release (0.7.2) was made available. While some changes were already backported in Gentoo 0.7.1 ebuild, there are quite a few new features. Fabian Franz (main FreeNX dev, who does a great work) has posted the (long because of all the new features) announcement on the mailing list here. Here are some new features I picked up:
- new helper program that should help for VNC sessions
- slave mod is usable (think “This dramatically reduces session login times and makes single sign on possible”)
- new samba sharing system (sharing and remote printing)
- New “nxsetup –test” command: this one will help a lot if you have an incorrect sshd conf for example
- lots of bugfixes
I’m preparing the version bump in portage, hopefully you will get it in a few days (new installation method, patches to update/remove/…). Stay tuned! EDIT: nxserver-freenx-0.7.2 is now in portage, enjoy!