A page in your DokuWiki was added or changed. Here are the details: Date : 2017/01/04 16:01 Browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 IP-Address : 78.43.90.159 Hostname : HSI-KBW-078-043-090-159.hsi4.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de Old Revision: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:nx-libs-betatesting?rev=1483545085 New Revision: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:nx-libs-betatesting Edit Summary: User : stefanbaur @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ ====== How to Betatest a newer NX-Libs version from Arctica ====== + + ===== What is Arctica and what do they have to do with X2Go and NX-Libs? ===== + + Arctica is a fork/spin-off of X2Go, and overlapping with X2Go in several goals as well as volunteers. + + Currently, one of the main sub-projects within the Arctica project is the task of updating the NX-Libraries (the code that NoMachines was forced to release under GPL, on which FreeNX, NeatX, X2Go etc. all depend). + Some X2Go volunteers are joining in on that effort as well, also, there are sponsors involved, namely Qindel/TheQVD, who both work on improving the NX-Libs themselves as well as paying others to do so. + + From time to time, Arctica will bundle up a release (see e.g. the announcement here: https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/52), but they provide nightly builds as well: https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/20. ===== Installation Instructions ===== This should work for Debian Jessie as well as for Ubuntu Server 16.04 - please take note of the distribution-specific differences marked within the text. @@ -65,8 +74,6 @@ If you don't/can't do that (e.g. because you're running Windows or macOS on your client), connecting with X2GoClient 4.0.5.2 should still work, though you might not experience all the benefits of the new NX-Libs. </note> - <note tip>For more information regarding the Arctica Nightly Builds, please refer to the following blog entry: - https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/20 </note> Credits: Most of the content of the initial revision of this page stems from an E-Mail by Walid Moghrabi, with some additional remarks by Ulrich Sibiller. -- This mail was generated by DokuWiki at http://wiki.x2go.org/