This week at LWN: Google releases Neatx NX server

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 8, 2009 6:31 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Koen Vervloesem
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On July 7, internet search giant Google not only announced its operating system Google Chrome OS with much fanfare, it also quietly released Neatx, an open source NX server. According to the announcement, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. While the X Window System has issues with network latency and bandwidth, the NX protocol compresses X requests and reduces round-trips, resulting in much better performance — to the point that it can be used over network connections with low bandwidth.

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