Hi,
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:14 -0300, Marcelo Boveto Shima wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a possibility that FreeNX + NX packages to get accepted into
> universe?

Yes, your goal must be Ibex, since we are long past FF. You should
upload it to REVU:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU

> The packages are on my ppa:
> https://launchpad.net/~marceloshima/+archive
> 
> Pros and Cons:
> - NX is a fork of Xorg 6.9.
>    It's duplicate source code.
> 
> - There is no security problem because only 3 libs (libX11, libXext
> and libXrender)
>     are shipped on the package and they can have the security patches
> ported from dapper.
>     I remember it was a problem because NX was a fork of XFree86.
> 
> - This libs can be renamed to libXXX-nx. So will not conflict with the
> Xorg ones.
> 
> - libXcomp, NXProxy and qtnx (NX client) are already in. We need the
> server to make the
>     client useful.
> 
> - Freenx is shell scripts. But we have Freenx-NG that is python.
>     This was another problem when it was proposed to get in some years
> ago.
> 
> Regards
> Marcelo Shima
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