NoMachine has upgraded its caching remote access proxies, which aim to lighten up the X, RDP, and RFB (VNC) protocols by placing caches at both network ends. NX 1.4.0 features better security, support for more platforms, and bugfixes. Updates of several open source packages using nx technology are also available.

NoMachine first announced its NX products in September of 2003, at the same time appealing to the free software community to help improve nx technology, which underpins not only NoMachine's commercial remote access products, but several open source packages as well.

NX architecture diagram
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Improvements in NX 1.4.0 include:

• Support for more server platforms, including:
  • Fedora Linux Core 1/Core 2
  • RedHat Linux 7.2/7.3/8.0/9.0
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux Version 3
  • SuSE Linux 7.2/7.3/8.0/8.1/8.2/9.0/9.1
  • Mandrake Linux 9.0/9.1/9.2/10.0/10.1
  • Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody)/Testing (Sarge)
  • Solaris 8/9/10 (SunOS 5.9/5.10) for SPARC
  • Sun JDS 2

• Support for more client platforms, including:
  • Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
  • Fedora Linux Core 1/Core 2
  • RedHat Linux 7.2/7.3/8.0/9.0
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux Version 3
  • SuSE Linux 7.2/7.3/8.0/8.1/8.2/9.0/9.1
  • Mandrake Linux 9.0/9.1/9.2/10.0/10.1
  • Debian GNU/Linux Stable (Woody)/Testing (Sarge)
  • MacOS/X 10.2.X for PPC
  • Solaris 8/9/10 (SunOS 5.9/5.10) for SPARC
  • Sun JDS 2

• Multiple enhancements and bug fixes “thanks to continuous feedback from NX users”

Additionally, NoMachine says it has improved its Support Center with personalization features and an online Knowledge Base.

Open source NX improvements

Updates to open source packages based on nx technology are also available, NoMachine notes. These include:

• nx-X11-1.4.0-6.tar.gz
• nxagent-1.4.0-63.tar.gz
• nxauth-1.4.0-1.tar.gz
• nxcomp-1.4.0-29.tar.gz
• nxproxy-1.4.0-2.tar.gz
• nxcompext-1.4.0-3.tar.gz
• nxdesktop-1.4.0-57.tar.gz
• nxviewer-1.4.0-4.tar.gz
• nxproxy-1.4.0-2.tar.gz
• nxspool-1.4.0-4.tar.gz
• nxuexec-1.4.0-13.tar.gz
• nxdarwin-1.4.0-2.tar.gz
• nxwin-1.4.0-3.tar.gz
• nxssh-1.4.0-18.tar.gz
• nxesd-1.4.0-1.tar.gz
• nxscripts-1.4.0-3.tar.gz

Availability

Nxserver 1.4.0 is available direct as a binary. The Linux version is priced from €54.50 for a single user copy to €1,994.50 for a 16-CPU unlimited user enterprise version, with in-between options available. Solaris binaries are priced from €84.50 (single user) to €13,094.50 (128 CPUs, unlimited users). Licensing changes mean that 1.3.2 keys will not work with 1.4.0 binaries.

Binaries of nxclient 1.4.0 are available for free evaluation download, and can be used with a demonstration server.

Open Source nx software is also available for download from NoMachine.

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