Thanks Paul & Jonh for your replies. You didn't see the reply of John ? Maybe because he inconsciously click on "reply" and not "reply to all" which didn't happen if we use a forum (Yes, I don't like the only optioin "Mailling list" ;-) )
(Such a pain to do the "layout", around 25min ;-) )
Cyril Vergne schreef:
Hi Everyone,
I'm new here. I don't have developper skills like most of you but there's no Web-Place to talk about this nice product X2go. John : "<grin> Many of us are in the same boat!" Paul : "If you like a forum, you can go to here: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.terminal-server.x2go.devel You can also post messages there."
I'm doing some testing to implement this solution for some of my clients. I tested Ulteo and NX Nomachine. After some more researches I found the FreeNX project which apparently was not supported anymore ... till I found this X2go project.
I read about linux4africa where I can find some ideas of implementation, the blog about x2go, but not enough to see the real functions of x2go.
John :"We have found it an outstanding project. I just wish I had the profitability to fund Heinz and Oleksandr full time! (working on it though ;) )."
They'll find funds quickly with the Cloud Computing technology !! I'm sure the donations would be huge if the x2go product seems to be stable and followed.
John :"The documentation is quite sparse. We are feverishly working on a pile of documentation we hope to donate as soon as we finish it. In the meantime, you can ask away on the list and we'll help as we can.
I'll make a new post on the mailing list to expose my case and my needs.
In my case for example, I love Ubuntu and I really want to propose it to my client. But there is a big problem about x2go on Ubuntu : No administration console.
I am not sure what you exactly need. I don't use the administration module. You can live without it ;-)
What i need it's an easy interface to control / maintain / supervise the x2go users, servers, sessions. You live without the administration module ? Fine ... for you. Can you give me at least the configuration files we have to play with ?
Apparently the module kcontrol is not any more installable on this distibution (Ubuntu 9.10 in my case and probably the 10.04 in few months) ... and nobody talk about it.
Is anyone found the solution in this case ? John :"We started on Ubuntu as our base platform and eventually became quite disenchanted for many of the same reasons cited by the Mepis project when they switched from Debian to Ubuntu and then back to Debian. We, too, have switched to Debian. We are also very favorably disposed to RedHat but find the RedHat schedule too slow and the Fedora schedule too aggressive for our needs. Debian Lenny + backports is about the best balance we can find. <snip> Good luck with X2Go; it is truly a fabulous solution - John"
First development platform is Debian. There are packages for Ubuntu, but not everything is supported there.
We would like it if comebody would make Ubuntu-packages, but the point is that Ubuntu makes many releases. It would cost much time.
The point for me not using Ubuntu on a server is that it does not give security support on many packages. Try this command and you will see you are using many packages without security-support:
aptitude search '?and(~s universe,~i)'
I'm sure Debian is a great product . Ubuntu was based on it. I worked in IT for 10 years and I have always been between Microsoft and Linux. But I know the easiest linux platform for "windows" users is Ubuntu. I tried some before and I really feel Ubuntu will be THE alternative of Windows for users.
I read about the reason to not get a forum and I don't get it. The forum is easy to find an answer with the search module.
You can search this list on many pleases, e.g. here: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.terminal-server.x2go.devel
And you don't have to go there everyday to see if there's some new topics or updates, you just have to configure the notifications.
Hope the X2Go project will be followed by many many people !!
You can follow the list by mail, usenet news, as 4 kinds of rss-feeds, as a forum and blog-like....
Wish you a nice day.
You too ;-)
If you don't like mailinglists, try Gmane. Works very nice.
With regards, Paul van der Vlis.