We connect to remote machines, whatever physical or virtual machines, through SSH in most cases, but occasionally we do need to live with graphical desktop. Yes, VNC is always used here, but.. urh.. VNC is too slow! NX is another option, and the most important thing is that NX is very fast! Fastest I’ve ever seen.
NX is a commercial product from NoMachine, but this company also provides a free edition which limits two connections simultaneously. There is an open source implementation of NX, NeatX, which is developed by Google.
It’s easy to install NeatX on Ubuntu 10.04:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:freenx-team
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install neatx-server
NX Clients
Several NX clients are available in the market, e.g., opennx, qtnx, and NoMachine’s NX Client, etc.. I tried and found that NX Client from NoMachine is the best one. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris. Go its download page, and get your version.
Hi, Yun Song
You are super. VNC is really fucking slow. NeatX is blazing fast. Thanks for the post