[TriLUG] Opinion Seeking: Remote Linux Desktops

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

Kinda OT, but I use “guacamole” as a remote session manager for remote desktops at the data center.  Essentially, you connect to a web server  running guacamole which presents you with multiple back-end remote desktops.  This works great if you have 2 or more servers in a location running various protocols (ie: one running RDP, one running VNC, etc).  You can even open a web browser to a shell session.

Thought this might be useful since we are discussing remote connectivity in general...

http://guac-dev.org/




On Feb 22, 2016, at 10:40 AM, John Vaughters via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> x2go blows away anything on the market. It is using the same technology as NX. But NX is turning into a paid solution. Both are great, but I moved to x2go as my primary remote access. You can even just run one application, so it can be an application service as well. It uses ssh and is compressed and encrypted. If anyone can find a better solution then NX technology, I would love to hear it.
> I still use VNC for versions of embedded linux that do not support x2go. Also, I use VNC on Linux and windows to share console sessions.
> John Vaughters
> 
> 
>    On Monday, February 22, 2016 10:28 AM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> VNC is how I do it but when outside the house, only over a tunneled SSH
>> connection.
> 
>       I second that motion. But then again I am doing it right now.
> Just setup VNC to do localhost only since the ssh port forwarding will
> take care of that.
> 
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Gang,
>>> 
>>> I'm getting closer and closer to having my primary home workstation spend
>>> most of its time running Linux.  One thing I have yet to really nail down
>>> is remote desktop.  When it's running Windows, I connect to the machine via
>>> RDP quite frequently, so I'll need the same functionality with hopefully
>>> comparable (if not better) performance.  Is VNC still the mechanism of
>>> choice for Linux remote desktops?  Recently I tried out NoMachine, which
>>> seemed cool, but isn't libre.  As far as remote X, I've never once seen it
>>> outperform RDP, so it's pretty much not in the running.  Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> -B
>>> 
>>> 
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