[Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:04:01PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:29:11 +0000
> "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
> 
> > VNC might not do well at supporting audio or video, but I'm quite
> > sure NX does.  And Exceed onDemand.  And GoGlobal.  (All commercial
> > products.)  And Citrix ... whatever their product is called.
> 
> NX isn't free. FreeNX has been dead for three years. Neatx appears to
> be similarly defunct, and it doesn't do sound or printer tunneling
> anyway.
> 
> Neither NX nor VNC grab DRI calls. Those are direct to the video
> hardware and bypass the X server entirely. Same for CUDA/OpenCL renders.

Spice looks like a promising technology for audio & video support:

http://spice-space.org/home.html

Here's what it can do now, and what they plan for the future:

http://spice-space.org/features.html