NoMachine Workstation for RPi?

[paoletto]

Hi, I was wondering if there’s any plan to release NoMachine Workstation for Linux/ARM or RPi, and/or whether it’s already available.

I was considering to replace a number of Intel NUCs with the upcoming RPi4, which, among other things, is supposed to be much more performant than the Atom-based nucs i have, but no NX-workstation availability is a bit of  a showstopper for me.

I’m evaluating whether to switch to VNC or just stay on x86.. Eventually i would probably try with VNC, which in general has decent performance, but if NX-workstation would be available, then that’d be perfect.
Oh, if you wonder why regular nx is not an option, well, because in my experience the h264-compressed video streaming has generally performed worse than VNC, for me, while the “light” protocol (from nx3 times) is still far superior to everything else available for Linux

[Britgirl]

H.264 streaming is more optimized for multimedia content, where X11 Vector Graphics Mode (which is what you prefer) is used for non-video contents like textual elements.

More information about that is here: https://www.nomachine.com/AR02L00779

NoMachine Workstation on Raspberry may be possible. You need to contact our Sales Team 🙂 We didn’t make it available at the time of adding support for RPi initially because the HW couldn’t cope with running up to 4 virtual desktops (which is what the Workstation provides), but now that the HW has improved, it’s worth exploring. Our tests show that RPi3 can run no more than 3 virtual desktop sessions in low resolution, plus 1 physical desktop session. RPi4, on the other hand, is much more powerful and our initial tests are looking very positive 🙂

[paoletto]

Thanks for the detailed answer! I keep my fingers crossed then! 🙂

[Britgirl]

If you are interested in evaluating the Workstation before purchasing, please contact our sales team via the Contact Us link in the footer 😉

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