[TriLUG] Linux equivalent to Remote Desktop

Reginald Reed reginald.reed at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 14:24:19 EDT 2006


On 6/1/06, Aaron S. Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>
> John Mitchell wrote:
>
> >   As part of changing to Linux (from XP embedded) the Engineers have
> > asked me what can they use in place of MS Remote Desktop.
> >
> >   Can Trilug throw me some pointers?
> >
> > john mitchell
>
> http://www.nomachine.com/ -- NX is another very good choice.  It's much
> more comparable to RDP than VNC, as it gives much better performance
> from my experience.
>

+1 for NX.  Unless shared sessions are required, we're switching many
servers over to FreeNX at Cisco.  I *love* NX and try not to use VNC unless
I have to.

--Reggie



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