On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 21:28 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: <snip>
TRANSLATED: Therefore my really seriously meant question is this: is
there any project that uses X2go productively.Mike: I personally use X2go productively as a system administrator. In
all networks I administrate there is one desktop workstation that runs
x2goserver. I use GNOME or LXDE to access the network components from
this X2go server. I install x2goserver from the new squeeze repos and
everything works out of the box (sqlite). As clients I use x2gocleintI also work for a company in the Netherlands that uses X2go for
full-featured SaaS. They sell the usage of a very special application
to offices by providing these apps via X2go. For this company (and for
the rest of the world) I have recently contributed another client
called PyHoca-GUI.
<snip> We are using it heavily in production. In fact, it is a core component of our business of providing complete, cloud based offices to micro-businesses and charities.
There are some shortcomings due to the fact that it is a young project with a dearth of programming resources. However, the beauty of open source is that we've been able to adapt those parts that did not work well in our environment and contribute them back, e.g., integrating with VServer for very dense 1:1 environments.
The biggest problem for us right now is the Windows client. The current production client has some crippling bugs due to its reliance upon Xming. The latest client, 3.0.1-18 can use vcxsrv and works beautifully
- faster, more features, but has introduced a new, critical printing issue. We earnestly hope that will be fixed and there will be a new Windows client release shortly.
We have made limited use of the Mac client with no problems and we make regular use of the Linux client with nary a glitch.
As you mentioned, there are pitifully few alternatives to X2Go but I see good things for X2Go as we work through our growing pains. The community is largely cooperative; the architecture is very open, and the project seems to be gaining traction. Hope that helps - John