thoughts on x2go

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Hello X2go users,

as promised we are introducing a new X2goclient for Windows today. Even if the version number is a bit of boring (the number is related to the update of all other X2go packages) this is really a big step of this piece of software. The most interesting changes are:

• Windows 7 users can now install (and use) X2goclient for Windows
• exotic (really exotic!) usernames can now use x2goclient
• As X2goclient now contains an X-Server build from sources the installer of Xming is no longer part of this package
• PulseAudio is now nativly build for X2goclient
• sshd will not be started as system daemon any more
• every X2coclient process starts a own Version of X, ssh and PulseAudio.
• the session dpi can be adopted to the local display
• for printing and viewing PDFs (X2goprint) it’s now possible to use the windows default PDF viewer application with winapi function “ShellExec” (If you use this option you won’t need ghostscript any more)

If you’d like to test it, please send us your opinion and discovered bugs. Please remove previously installed x2goclients and xmings (if you don’t need it any longer). A whole list of changes will be postet to our mailinglist.

Xgoclient 3.01-4 can be downloaded here:

http://prdownload.berlios.de/x2go/x2goclient-3.01-4-setup.exe

Regards,

Heinz & Alex

X2go will be presented during “Projektübergreifende Open-Source-Treffen” in Munich. The presentation will start about 17 ‘o clock on November 20th and we’ll answer questions regarding X2go. If you’ll have the chance to visit this event, feel free to do so. Besides X2go there will be other open source talks too.

In the last weeks we’ve been working on a new version of the Windows Version of X2goclient. In future X2goclient will include the X-server and not install a whole xming environment. Only needed items will be part of install package and you won’t need user interaction to get the components running.

By default the SSHD will be running in userspace, which will prevent the occurence of the problem of unset access control list options. Furthermore Usernames with white space and exoticc letters will be possible to use x2goclient even if they are part of a windows domain.

Because of the number of changes we will give you soon access to the beta version of this client. We hope to invite you to test this client at the end of next week.

Best Regards,

Heinz

LinuxDay 2009

As last year X2go will be part of the Linuxday Austria in Dornbirn. X2goserver-home can be seen on the ubuntu booth, a complete X2gosystem with PXE-Boot, LDAP and SmartCard Auth will be presented on the X2go booth. There will be a lighning talk too. If you plan to visit this Event, please visit us on our booth.