x2x or other program

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 1/4/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> >
> > I should have said: "VNC is painfully slow, and insecure too (unless
> > encapsulated inside a SSH tunnel)". VNC is slow by itself, and even
> > slower when tunneled through SSH since SSH imposes some performance
> > penalty due to encryption (and compression). I suggest you trying out
> > NX/FreeNX as it's free and open.
>
> Except that NX _isn't_ Free, and FreeNX seems to be dead.  I've been reduced
> to using NX, which wouldn't bother me too much except that they don't
> provide a proper debian/Ubuntu repository - just the individual .debs which
> are slightly odd.  There is a new project (2x?) that is Free and may
> supercede FreeNX but I'm not holding my breath.

Are you sure 2X is free (like in speech)? As far as I can see, 2X is
free but not open --- at least, I can't find any reference to the
source code.