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Free NX usage
The FreeNX facility is an open-source client-server application for X11 compression. It offers you an X11 login environment on your local machine (e.g. laptop) with the look and feel as if you are working locally on your remote server.
Benefits of the Nomachine NX server
- very fast, full graphical desktop (even over dial-up modem)
- much faster than VNC
- far more secure than VNC
- simple and reliable configuration, based on OpenSSH
- source code available under GNU Public License (GPL)
- free support from the Linux Community
- enterprise-level paid support available from Nomachine and CentOS
Clients
The Linux client can be found at http://nomachine.com/download.php The windows client can be found here