Due to the great contribution of Jim Burnes the X2Go team is able to bump an unscheduled bugfix release of NX (redistributed) aka x2goagent.

The provided patch  fixes recently observed crashes of X2Go occuring on systems that had been upgraded to libcairo >= 1.12.1.

The patch–as stated by its author–is still in alpha development state but it definitely fixes crashes of GTK applications under KDE, resp. startup failures of the GNOME3 fallback desktop of recent Debian wheezy/sid X2Go installations. The X2Go developers will take a closer look at the patch and–if needed–will help to improve it.

Thanks, Jim for your contribution to X2Go.

Mike

You all really should have upgraded your X2Go servers to Debian squeeze…

For those who have not: we have just provided the latest releases of all server-side X2Go packages for Debian lenny. Such package backporting occurs in irregular intervals and is mostly related to some contractor who needs latest X2Go packages for not-yet upgraded servers.

Happy installation!

Mike

Debian lenny backport packages:

deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian lenny main

We will be again exhibitor on the Linuxtag 2011 Berlin. We will show the most recent developments, a complete installation our cooperative work with skolelinux and our little phoca. Please feel free to visit us, ask questions and talk about our and your ideas about the future of remote computing. See you (again) in Berlin! You’ll find us in “Halle 7.2a, Stand 117″.

Following an invitation of the xing group Linux-Stammtisch-Muenchen x2go will be presented in Munich on 09-22-2010 (Wednesday). If you wan’t to visit this Event, you’ll can do this for free by visiting the rooms of Unionsbraeu Munich. As our presentation is just one of a bunch of topics like red hat’s spice, this might be an interesting event.

We are very happy to announce that we’ll receive project aid as a result of a OSS competition initiated by Thomas Krenn (a german hardware manufacturer). Thank you very much to everybody having choosen us! You can read more about this here. We’ll use the accessible hardware for testing purpose – especially for our x2goplugin.!

phoca on linuxtag 2010

Thank you for visiting our booth on Linuxtag and our talk at minidebconf (debian). This Linuxtag we’ve showed the visitors the features of the upcomming release like the new “x2goplugin” or the “desktop sharing” feature. Now we’ll try to finish our work on the new release so you can use it soon. Our little “phoca” was a highlight of our booth and often photographed…

Linuxtag 2010

You’ll find our booth inside the 7.2a hall as part of the education area. We would be glad if you’ll visit us and give us feedback about our project. There will be a talk (friday 15 o’clock) as part of the Debian MiniConf too (http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-LT-Berlin/2010).

Linuxtag is a great event and worth a visit. You’ll be able to get in contact with the people behind the projects.

x2go will can be seen again on the Open Source Treffen in Munich. We will present the new plugin and the features of the upcomming release “baikal” (3.1). The Open Source Treffen Event will be on Mai 28th. If you’re interested to visit this reocurring event in Munich, please visit their website.

We’ve changed the url of the blog – so please update your Bookmarks.
The new url is: http://blog.x2go.org
This change will help us to move our blog to other servers and to keep the addresses of our sites short an generic.

The latest changes on our Pulseaudio implementation are making it possible to use Voice Over IP applications. This is a short demonstration with the new Nokia N900 phone (we could test this device only for a very short period of time). This will work on more common setups like desktop clients too.

For anybody new to X2go – this video shows a client application which makes it possible to connect to a remote desktop. After the the connection is established you’ll see a kde 3.5 Desktop which is running on a remote machine – not local. The started voip application also runs on the server machine. What you hear at the end of the video is the recorded output of the server side voip application.

best regards,

Heinz