FastX
Available For Use By
- Students
- Faculty
- Staff
Permitted Uses
- Research
- Classwork
- Administrative Use
Restrictions
None
Available Via
- Legacy VCL
- AVD
- Eos Labs
- Specific Teaching Lab
- Individual Computers
Where It May Be Installed
- University Owned Computers
- Virtualized environments
- Personally Owned Computers
Description
FastX displays high-resolution 2D & 3D X11 Linux applications with unsurpassed speed and security over LAN, WAN and Cloud networks.
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Installation Notes
- Note that FastX Server is only available for Linux. This should be installed on the computer that you are connecting to. This may have already been done by your IT staff if you are connecting to a campus resource.
- The client is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. This is what you install on the computer that you are connecting from.
- Client and server versions (2.x vs 3.x) must match -- if you are connecting to a FastX 2 server, use the FastX 2 client to connect.
- The license server for FastX Server is: fastx.eos.ncsu.edu