The Arrival of NX (Part 1 of 7)

Anyone who has used a VNC connection to remotely use an X Windows machine knows that a high speed link is necessary for a remotely usable experience. NX (aka NoMachine) technology compresses this communication and suppresses unnecessary communication between clients and servers. The benefit to the user is a near-local speed experience with any decent link and a very usable one over even dial-up speed links. This series of articles seems to be a nice history of the events that led up to the current state of NoMachine technology. Debian systems can enjoy FreeNX, a completely free version of the technology.