https://wiki.x2go.org/ 2026-04-14T08:03:03+00:00 https://wiki.x2go.org/ https://wiki.x2go.org/lib/tpl/x2go/images/favicon.ico text/html 2017-01-16T16:55:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:cvix?rev=1484585733&do=diff The CVix SaaS Service in the Netherlands Shared by Dick Kniep, CEO of Lindix (The Netherlands) CVix is a system used in the Netherlands to administer information about persons who need care, or are unemployed. The system is written in Python and wxPython. An interface to OpenOffice (now LibreOffice) provides the possibility to write standard documents filled with information from the database. An email interface provides the possibility to mail notes. Hours spent can be administered and invo… text/html 2017-01-16T16:54:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:debian-edu?rev=1484585693&do=diff Deployment Story: Debian Edu / Skolelinux and X2Go (without TJENER) Shared by: Mike Gabriel (with my Debian Edu Developer hat on) In Debian Edu contexts the main criticism since the release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux squeeze is: the whole Debian Edu system has become far to complex (LDAP, Kerberos, GOsa², Samba, LTSP, text/html 2017-03-27T15:26:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:electronic-glovebox?rev=1490628416&do=diff X2Go at the Doctor's office: The Electronic GloveBox Shared by Stefan Baur, BAUR-ITCS UG (Germany) The Electronic GloveBox is our implementation of a Remote Controlled Browsers System, ReCoBS. ReCoBS is a security concept designed by the German Federal Office for Information Security ( text/html 2017-01-16T16:55:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:simple-sysadmin?rev=1484585707&do=diff System Administration with X2Go Shared by Mike Gabriel, DAS-NETZWERKTEAM (Germany) Personally, I prefer system administration using solid and pure SSH. However, at many customers' sites I need more then a simple terminal. Testing problems in user profiles (Linux / Windows), browser behaviour behind a dedicated firewall, and many other site specific constraints and/or features can only be tested from within the customer's network. text/html 2024-10-10T15:21:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:start?rev=1728573702&do=diff What Can I do with X2Go? X2Go is a terminal server software for setting up Unix-based terminal servers. X2Go falls into server and client components. On the server there are some obligatory core components (not very many!) and a variety of server add-ons and extensions. text/html 2017-03-03T20:56:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-biofrontiers-institute-coloradu-edu?rev=1488574595&do=diff X2Go at BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Here at BioFrontiers we have researchers doing all kinds of research from bioinformatics to molecular modeling. Previously we'd stand up one-off VMs to handle a given piece of software needed for visualization. When a need arose to have 40 concurrent connections to a single machine to use IGV (Interactive Genomics Viewer from the Broad Institute), we needed to find something that was low latency and low overhead. Fast forward just about … text/html 2017-01-16T16:47:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-cern-university-of-cincinnati?rev=1484585256&do=diff X2Go at CERN, Switzerland/University of Cincinnati My group (University of Cincinnati) has a server in Cincinnati which we use heavily, mainly for research into GPU integration in particle physics analyses. All the members in the group are based at CERN for the moment, and the best way to use the machine in Cincinnati without the lag of ssh is by using X2Go. Hands down, X2Go is the best tool I’ve used for it. text/html 2017-01-16T16:49:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-cfd-direct-openfoam?rev=1484585355&do=diff X2Go at CFD Direct CFD Direct are the primary developers of OpenFOAM , the free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics. We enable users to run OpenFOAM on the cloud with CFD Direct From the Cloud: a complete platform providing OpenFOAM and supporting software running on the latest long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu Linux. Users connect to an instance using SSH or through remote desktop using X2Go. Our users find X2Go quick, robust and effective. text/html 2017-01-16T16:45:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-cisco?rev=1484585159&do=diff X2Go at Cisco I have a Minnowboard Max (A system I purchased myself) and run Ubuntu on it to complement my W7 corporate desktop. Originally I had connected the Minnowboard to one of my monitors but this was annoying since I had to switch input devices to control it. I now use X2Go to bring up a KDE session on one of my desktop monitors to allow easy cut-n-paste and control without the need to switch back and forth physically. Having the session preserved is great too! This isn't a corporate… text/html 2017-01-16T16:48:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-dom-texas-am-university?rev=1484585322&do=diff Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University We're a good sized Linux shop, with 300 desktop systems for faculty, staff, and graduate student office use, and 283 desktop systems used for laboratory instruction. Our desktop environment has been XFCE on Linux Mint LTS for several years, with X2Go taking over from FreeNX for remote access since 2013. text/html 2017-01-16T16:54:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-holland-computing-center-university-of-nebraska?rev=1484585677&do=diff X2Go at Holland Computing Center, University of Nebraska The Holland Computing Center is the central research computing provider for the University of Nebraska system. In addition to Linux-based clusters, we also provide the ability for researchers to run virtual machines via our OpenStack-based cloud resource. We provide a curated set of operating system images to use within OpenStack. For all Linux images with a graphical desktop environment, we pre-install X2Go Server. Since OpenStack us… text/html 2017-01-16T16:44:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-martinos-center-for-medical-imaging?rev=1484585095&do=diff X2Go at Martinos Center for Medical Imaging I am the IT manager for the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging which is a joint research center of Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard HST and MIT BCS. We have over 300+ Linux workstations at users desks for our imaging analysis. Up until around 2008 users would use VNC for remote graphical access, then we started using FreeNX and more recently X2Go. The primary analysis tools are MATLAB and FreeSurfer ( text/html 2017-01-16T16:46:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-nasa-jet-propulsion-laboratory?rev=1484585199&do=diff X2Go at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory We are evaluating X2Go and intend to use it as an alternative remote desktop solution with single applications that are custom-made for JPL. X2Go provides our users with a secure and fast remote solution between systems. X2Go meets those needs with its use of the NX technology protocol which provides secure standalone remote sessions via ssh. Users are able to run graphical applications on their Linux workstations securely and without compromising per… text/html 2017-03-23T09:33:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-research-it-university-at-albany?rev=1490261598&do=diff X2Go at Research IT, University at Albany For the past year we have been using X2Go, replacing another program that was not as reliable. Having an open source tool that is reliable and well maintained is very important to us. We have deployed software applications such as Matlab and SAS on our Linux servers. End users can easily use the graphical user interface of these application on their Windows desktop by using X2Go. text/html 2018-02-15T14:15:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-rutgers-university-computer-science-department?rev=1518704102&do=diff X2Go at Rutgers University’s Computer Science Department We looked at many different remote access programs when looking for a remote access solution for Rutgers University’s Computer Science Department. None of them compared to the ease of use, value and performance we got from X2Go. text/html 2017-01-16T16:48:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-rwth-aachen?rev=1484585300&do=diff X2Go at the Department of Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University At RWTH Aachen, X2Go is used as part of the mathematics students' training. The students must enroll in several hands-on training classes, includung, among others, programming practice and understanding computer algebra systems. These training classes are carried out on computers with a Linux operating system. For most of our first-year students, this is their first encounter with a Linux operating system. To enable the students to w… text/html 2017-01-16T16:46:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-six-group-com?rev=1484585184&do=diff X2Go at Six-Group.com We use X2Go in some IT-teams to connect our Windows desktop systems with our Linux infrastructure. There are colleagues in development functions as well as operational functions, to integrate for example an Eclipse running on Linux or other graphical tools to our desktop systems. My own usage in quite wide-spread, as I am thru my function Linux focused, and X2Go enables me to use almost frictionless numerous graphical-applications running on Linux. text/html 2024-10-10T15:19:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-the-german-red-cross-civil-protection-in-herne?rev=1728573555&do=diff X2Go at the German Red Cross civil protection in Herne The Red Cross is part of the civil protection services in Germany since decades and is mostly run by volunteers. One of the numerous tasks people do there is ambulance service when damaging events occour or for planned public major events. text/html 2017-01-16T16:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-tu-graz?rev=1484585282&do=diff X2Go at Graz University of Technology ( TU Graz ) We use X2Go to allow Students and Researchers to connect to some of our High Performance Computing Services, so they can use the graphical interfaces of diverse programs ( Matlab, AVL Fire, Ansys, Abaqus etc. ) from all operating systems with ease, especially from Windows. Its main use is our Matlab terminal service, which targets primarily students, who need to use matlab for smaller computations and exercises. text/html 2017-01-16T16:48:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-university-of-california-irvine?rev=1484585337&do=diff X2Go at the University of California, Irvine I'm one of the Research Computing domain specialists at the University of California, Irvine. We provide >1000 applications (pre- and self-compiled) for our ~1500 cluster users. Most are commandline but we have a large minority that use graphics (MATLAB, Mathematica, ANSYS, SAS, STATA, CLCBio, etc) and for these we use X2Go, not only because it is Open Source, but because we have repeatedly compared it to commercial packages and found that either t… text/html 2017-01-16T16:47:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-uwaterloo?rev=1484585270&do=diff X2Go at the University of Waterloo In the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo we use X2Go for a handful of advanced Chemistry courses. Due to the demands of other courses, the computer labs we run in the faculty are primarily equipped with Microsoft operating systems text/html 2017-01-16T16:46:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-at-westlake-financial?rev=1484585170&do=diff X2Go at Westlake Financial Westlake Financial Services utilizes X2Go as a “jump box” solution. We were looking at utilizing Microsoft Terminal Services but the cost was prohibitive. At the moment were using it in 2 different “secure” environments as the primary method to access the servers and services inside of that network. Additionally we provide X2Go jump boxes to technical contractors who need to access our network and we're demoing 3 or 4 other uses for it for various things. Suffice … text/html 2017-01-16T16:44:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-hpc-cluster-upenn?rev=1484585072&do=diff X2Go being used to access High-Performance-Computing cluster at University of Pennsylvania I manage the HPC cluster for a number of medical imaging research labs at Univ. of Penn, at the School of Medicine and other groups. So a small slice of the big pie, with currently about a half dozen regular X2Go users who (very succesfully!) use it to remotely access our compute cluster and ancillary servers. It really works very well, hats off to you and your team. Without X2Go, the performance of X1… text/html 2017-01-16T16:53:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-in-faculty-of-environment-university-of-leeds?rev=1484585604&do=diff X2Go in the Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds For the last few years we have been using X2Go as a preferred method of remotely connecting to Linux systems in the Faculty, and this has been very successful. The software is used a great deal by members of staff, as well as research and taught students, and has become very popular. text/html 2017-01-16T16:44:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:x2go-swiss-school-with-windows-ad-sso?rev=1484585048&do=diff X2Go in a Swiss school, with Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Single-Sign-On We are a small school (200 students) in Switzerland for students that have finished their public school but haven't made it to an apprenticeship training position yet. So our main goal is to prepare them for the