Remote Desktop: the recipe.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:

> John Summerfield wrote:
>
> > > > More like desktop sharing.
> > >
> > > i only used the phrase "Remote Desktop" since that's how it appears in
> > > the GNOME menu.
> >
> > Bizarre. I'm looking at http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop.html
> >
> > It's clear it's talking about desktop sharing (or remote assistance), and
> > not remote desktop as anyone else uses the term.
> >
> >
> > AFAIK this is the only remote desktop client for Linux:
> > http://www.rdesktop.org/
>
> That's for the Windows remote desktop protocol and there is no corresponding
> server.  If you want something with equivalent performance on Linux, look at
> freenx with the NX clients from www.nomachine.com. The current freenx server
> can't share the active console session though, you have to start new sessions
> when you first connect and then you have the choice of suspending or
> terminating them when you disconnect.  The commercial NX server claims to
> allow connections to the console but I haven't tried it.

ok, i'm clearly going to have to take a deep breath and collect all
this info and collate it.  and it seemed like such a simple project in
the beginning ...

rday
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