FreeNX, what a wonderful piece of software. This evil piece of code enables me to have a nice full connection to my office computer from home as would be using it form the office... It's pretty much like VNC, but this is faster (at least people claim it is, I've never tried VNC myself).
This FreeNX also relatively easy to install; both server (on Kubuntu 7.04) and client (on Windows). You can find nice instructions on how to install the server to Ubuntu from here. If I'm able to install it, anyone is. There was just one problem. I had to use older client (windows) than what you can find from nomachine.com. Older client can be found here.
Easy. Now I'm able to work at home like I would be at office in front of my computer (something I've tried to avoid as much as possible).
Oh, I added a nice screenshot of KDE desktop running on Windows.
PS. I had problems to get my keyboard to work with finnish layout. Then, finally, I found a way to fix this. In the file node.conf (on my Kubuntu this is in /etc/nxserver) you have to add this line:
AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X="-xkbdir /usr/share/X11/xkb"
(find first the AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS line, it is commented by default, and then change)
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