Univ-R^x project

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Univ-R^x presentation

Univ-R^x is a web collaborative digital workspace with remote access to a selection of software running on a Linux server

It is made up two differents projects :

BNX 'Bureau-Nomade Linux' (Linux remote desktop)

is the remote desktop project, it offers to all the students and teachers a remote access to a selection of software running on linux servers, with loadbalancing on the server farm. The desktop interface is proposed as web pages, so you can manage easily the graphic environnement of the clients remote session.

EEV 'Etablissement d'Enseignement Virtuel' (web collaborative digital workspace)

is the web collaborative digital workspace which is used in the Univ-RX project to give all users specific graphic environnement, functionalities and workspaces. It is also called WebUniv?-R, and you can access directly to these informations without opening your remote desktop.

Univ-R^x origin

Univ-R^x is the Linux version of Univ-R (the digital workspace of the University Louis-Pasteur of Strasbourg developed by the ULP Multimedia department). It is the result of a call for projects launched by the French Ministry of Education to develop digital workspaces in universities. The purpose was to give self-service access to digital resources of the university and remote acces to these ones over internet. But also teaching workspaces for educational units.

Univ-R^x collaboratives functionalities

Univ-R^x offers : spatial metaphors of working spaces, group and individual storage spaces, chat, forums and emails.

Univ-R^x Links : Sources and project documentations

System	Terminal servers and load balancing		Installation and configuration
Graphic environement	User environement	Principle	Installation and configuration
	Central Authentication Service (Applet Univ-RX)		Sources
	Exemple of a user interface 'BNX'		Sources
Remote Access	Applet Univ-RX	Principle	Sources
EEV	web collaborative digital workspace	Principle	Sources

Univ-R^x technologies

On the technological side Univ-R^x uses Debian for servers, NX protocol for remote access, JSP for the web interface, Java for the remote access client applet.

Univ-R^x remote access

The remote access consist on a java applet, which includes the open source NX protocol developped by Nomachine (www.nomachine.com). The application Univ-R^x is part of another university project EPPUN (French) and it must be available thru a web site whith single sign on capabilities. The applet can authenticate the user whith the implentation of a SSO component using CAS athentication (Central Authentication Services from Yale University). You can access to codes and documentations of the applet in this site too : http://ulpmm-projets.u-strasbg.fr/projets/applet-univrx/

Univ-R^x License

Univ-R^x is made under Gnu-GPL license, all the documentation and codes of the project are available on this site. There is two differents mailing list for the project :

univ-rx-dev@… for the developpers interested in this project
univ-rx-user@… for the users to exchange around usage.

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