Re: Possibility of RDP server for Linux?

[Michael Ossmann <michael.ossmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:22:48AM -0800, Todd Meade wrote:
>
> Doesn't VNC already fill this gap?  Why a RDP specific protocol server
> for Linux?  Are the RDP clients that much better than a RFB/VNC
> client, where a completely open source RFP alternative already exists;
> with a full range of clients (including browser/java) for just about
> any platform one would be using?

No, RDP isn't really any better than RFB, at least not until recently.
The fact that RDP is a proprietary protocol makes it undesirable for
many purposes.  I certainly wouldn't expect a Linux RDP server to be a
replacement for VNC.  There are many RDP clients out there, however,
which do not (and probably never will) support RFB.  Chief among these
are the wide variety of "Windows Based Terminals" such as the Wyse
Winterms.  Most of them run WinCE and have no JVM to run a VNC client,
although some run Embedded NT or Embedded XP and should be able to run
the Java VNC client.

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Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor
Alternative Technology, Inc.  http://www.alttech.com/