IGEL Thin Clients and NoMachine NX


NoMachine NX is a remote desktop software for Linux environments. It increases the transmission speed of the X11 protocol in Unix and Linux. With NoMachine NX, the screen content of a remote computer can be transmitted to a local one – even if they are running different operating systems (cross-platform). The NX server can also forward NX sessions to VNC Server or Windows Terminal Server (per RDP) and further compress these sessions.

X11 and NoMachine NX

NoMachine NX is best understood as a protocol extension for the X Window System. By means of data compression, NoMachine NX improves the performance of the UNIX/Linux X11 network protocol. NX functions as a proxy system between X server and X client and, in addition to the X protocol, also translates RDP and VNC. SSL encryption (via SSH) is also possible.

Support from IGEL Software and Hardware

NoMachine NX is supported by all IGEL Universal Desktop thin clients running IGEL Linux (LX) and Windows Embedded Standard (ES) operating systems with the IGEL ‘Advanced’ firmware package.

Your Advantages

  • Performance: application provisioning over LAN and WAN
  • Flexibility: NX supports the X11 protocol, RDP and VNC
  • Security: SSL encryption possible (128-bit SSH public key encryption with random cookie generation)
  • Multimedia: MP3, KDE and GNOME system/event sounds, and others
  • Relatively economical