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

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 09:09 -0400, 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.
>
> rdesktop?  RDP is well supported on LINUX.

RDP is *nice* on Linux.  At one point in 2008, I was stuck home sick,
but ran out of sick days.  I VPN'd into work and tried to use my XP
Pro workstation via TightVNC.  It was dreadfully slow.  I switched
over to RDP (using grdesktop, a GNOME interface for rdesktop), and was
able to code at a not-insufferable rate.  The only problem I ran into
was that XP Pro refused to give me a bit depth greater than 16,
regardless of what I specified to the RDP client, and I needed 24 or
32 for the testing cycles of the code I was working on.

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