On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:39 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> We have created a new version of freenx (freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm)
> and moved it to the testing repo.
>
> This is based on the code displayed at the LWE in San Francisco ...
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/146825/
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489
>
> (though it is not officially released as stable by the freenx people)
>
> This version should handle printing and reconnecting to running sessions
> much better.
>
> Running sessions (on the nx server, that is the machine you are
> connecting to) are stored in "/var/lib/nxserver/db/running" ... if you
> have been disconnected in the past, there may be several old sessions
> out there that need to be cleaned up ... go remove the sessions that are
> invalid (all of them in that directory if you do not have any open
> sessions to that server). There is no real auto cleanup of these if
> your session breaks ... I will try to develop something that works
> later. In the meantime, if you session list is to big and some are dead,
> you will have to delete them manually.
>
> This version also allows rootless mode, which is faster compression.
>
> So far, this is a major improvement to my user experience for NX.
>
> ------------------
> Copy the testing CentOS-Testing.repo file from here:
>
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/
>
> to /etc/yum.repos.d/ , then use this command to install freenx:
>
> yum --enablerepo=c4-testing install freenx nx
>
> Report issues with this to the freeenx tracker here:
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307
>
> -------------------
> A guide for setting up the NoMachine client (to connect to the freenx
> server, if you installed it) is here:
>
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
>
> (you only need to do the client items, as the server is taken care of
> with the above yum install).
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further feedback...the resume sessions has been working perfectly
including several unavoidable interruptions (undoubtedly caused by flaky
Internet connection at other end).
I would say that it's very worthwhile upgrade.
Craig
