NX technology

Desktop virtualization and application delivery software NoMachineRelease2003Stable release10.0.57 / 31 July 2026; 58 days ago (2026-07-31) Size28 MBTypeRemote desktop softwareLicenseCommercialWebsitewww.nomachine.com NX technology, commonly known as NX or NoMachine, is a remote access and remote control computer software allowing remote desktop access and maintenance of computers. It is developed by the Luxembourg-based company NoMachine S.à r.l. NoMachine is proprietary software. With the release of NoMachine 10, the previously free-to-install and use "free edition" was discontinued. History NX's design was derived from the Differential X Protocol Compressor project (DXPC). In 2003, NoMachine's compression and transport protocol NX was created to improve the performance of the native X display protocol so it could be used over slow connections such as dial-up modems. Originally targeting Linux-based operating systems, the core compression technology, designed by Gian Filippo Pinzari and announced on the KDE and Gnome development forums, was released under the GNU GPL2 license (NX 1) for Linux servers in 2003, whilst other components such as the NX Server and NX Client programs r