As you who follow this blog know we support both Linux and Windows for our clients. Utilizing each for their strengths.
As part of the rebuild for my laptop, I partitioned it with Windows XP and Fedora Core 4. I have been using Fedora Core 4 on it almost exclusively. After I went through the pain of converting all my outlook mail, tasks and address book into a non proprietary format it seems silly to go back to putting that into a container that only 1 computer can utilize. So as to date I have not gone back to using Word, Excel, or Outlook, on any of my machines, and have not missed it. I do some work for clients in Access and as such have not found an alternative for it, so I continue to use it as necessary.
However I do need frequently to access Windows machines either on my network or at client sites. For this I have a Windows desktop that works great, but if I am on the laptop I have been shutting down and rebooting into XP. This as you can imagine is a pain.
I know that Microsoft makes an RDP client for the Mac, so I thought I would see if anyone has made a Terminal Services client for Linux. Of course they do :) Its a sourceforge project and a stable released version. Woot ! rdesktop works great for quick and dirty access to my windows remote desktop clients and terminal servers.
Related Articles
rdesktop -fzbThanks to the rdesktop team for making Linux even better !
Till Next Time,
Sean Riley
President, DogRiley