[GRLUG] A strategy for Windows, Linux and thin client.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 09:15 -0400, topher at wcsg.org wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, peyeps at iserv.net wrote:
> > I have to admit that I don't know what open source software is available
> > that will allow you to run a remote windows desktop from Linux.  I do know
> > it is possible to use Webex to do it.
> If nothing else there's rdesktop.  Isn't that the way windows machines 
> connect to remote windows machines?  And as much as I hate it, rdesktop is 
> a zillion times faster than vnc.

RDP also supports a variety of things VNC doesn't from sound, to file
transfer, to dynamic resolution changes.

The state of VNC is just sad;  there has basically been zero progress
since AT&T ash canned the project.