= X2GO -- Remote Desktop Services on Debian based systems =

    o How many of you use remote desktop solutions?
    o How many of you need remote desktop solutions?
    o How many of you are content with what's in Debian concerning remote desktop solutions?


    o If you use remote desktop, what do you use it for?


== Features of X2Go ==

  o Scales quite well over WAN connections
  o Client-side printing support
  o Sharing of client-side folders / devices
  o GNuPG smart card authentication (optional)
  o X2Go session brokerage
  o PXE based Thin Client Environment
  o Desktop Bindings for GNOMEv2, LXDE, KDE, MATE


== Use cases ==

  o Access to your `homebox'
  o Schools in Denmark and Norway
  o Samson project (Norway / Myanmar)
  o CVix SaaS in The Netherland
  o Drop-in replacement for LTSP in Debian Edu deployments
  o Desktop workspace in a call center
  o Remote Administration


== X2Go and Debian ==

  o Client-side applications are already in Debian
  o Server-side components are problematic (see below)


== Concept ==

  o external package source: deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian wheezy main
  o Server:
          sudo aptitude install x2goserver-xsession x2goserver-printing \
                                x2goserver-fmbindings
  o Client: 
      (a) sudo aptitude install x2goclient
      (b) sudo aptitude install pyhoca-gui


== Challenges in X2Go == 

  o New desktop shells with server-side rendering push a lot of / only bitmaps ,,over the wire''
  o The NX backend used by X2Go: very old code base that is as is not appropriate for Debian
  o GNOMEv3, Unity (beyond Ubuntu 12.04), Cinnamon unusable

http://bugs.debian.org/655699

== Contact X2Go team ==

=== Upstream X2Go ===

  o http://wiki.x2go.org, http://bugs.x2go.org

  o ANN-ML:  x2go-announcement@lists.berlios.de (https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-announcement)
  o Dev-ML:  x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de (https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev)
  o User-ML: x2go-user@lists.berlios.de (https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-user)

  o #x2go on irc.freenode.net

=== X2Go Packaging Team ===

  o on Alioth: pkg-x2go-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
  o Packaging Git-Vcs on g.d.o:/git/collab-maint


== X2Go fully in Debian??? ==

  o How many of you would like to see a solution like X2Go available in Debian (server+client components)?