[CentOS] freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm is in testing

Thu Apr 27 15:39:04 UTC 2006
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:25 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 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).
> > ----
> > 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,
> 
> can you provide feedback on the issue tracking online please ? url is in
> the email you replied to.
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done

Craig