Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 20:45, James.Rocks@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> > As far as I know, there is no Linux RDP (i.e. native MS TS) client.  I
> > heard RDP4 had been reverse engineered by SCO, but don't know about
> > RDP5.  This is because of the agreement between MS and Citrix.
> 
> OK ... thanks :-)

This is sooo NOT true.

Check out http://www.rdesktop.org/ , download, compile and winders away
:-)

> 
> > However, the Citrix ICA client works wonderfully under Linux.  We've
> > actually been playing with it here for the past couple of weeks.  The
> > down side to this is that Citrix is not cheap, but if you use Linux
> > clients, and are therefore not paying for MS client OS licences, it
> > probably works out to be the same as MS TS.  Don't hold me to these
> > licensing issues though, I'm a techie, not a sales guy.  Your local
> > Citrix sales office should be able to help you.
> 

This is also so not true. Ica works with *some* products, but has the
obnoxious behaviour of totally freezing the client with other products
( like Navision Financials f.ex )

> I was aware of the Citrix client (I support Citrix, server-side at work)
> but, if it's that good, I ought to investigate it under Linux ... I'll wait
> until I'm a bit more au fait with it though first.
> 
> James C. Rocks
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