Introduction
NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one.
NX (v3) has been originally developed by NoMachine and has been Free Software ever since. Since NoMachine obsoleted NX (v3) some time back in 2013/2014, the maintenance has been continued by a versatile group of developers. The work on NX (v3) is being continued under the project name "nx-libs".
Release Announcement
On Tuesday, Sep 13th, version 3.5.99.1 of nx-libs has been released [1].
This release brings some code cleanups regarding displayed copyright information and an improvement when it comes to reconnecting to an already running session from an X11 server with a color depths setup that is different from the X11 server setup where the NX/X11 session was originally created on. Furthermore, an issue reported to the X2Go developers has been fixed that caused problems on Windows clients on copy+paste actions between the NX/X11 session and the underlying MS Windows system. For details see X2Go BTS, Bug #952 [3].
Change Log
A list of recent changes (since 3.5.99.0) can be obtained from here.
Binary Builds
You can obtain binary builds of nx-libs for Debian (jessie, stretch, unstable) and Ubuntu (trusty, xenial) via these apt-URLs:
- Debian:
deb http://packages.arctica-project.org/debian {jessie,stretch,sid} main - Ubuntu:
deb http://packages.arctica-project.org/ubuntu {trusty,xenial} main
Our package server's archive key is: 0x98DE3101 (fingerprint: 7A49 CD37 EBAE 2501 B9B4 F7EA A868 0F55 98DE 3101). Use this command to make APT trust our package server:
wget -qO - http://packages.arctica-project.org/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
The nx-libs software project brings to you the binary packages nxproxy (client-side component) and nxagent (nx-X11 server, server-side component).