“Working in a cross-platform data centre is now the rule rather
than the exception for the vast majority of administrators, as both
Windows and Linux have made inroads into organisations around the
world.“But because the two operating systems are so different,
allowing fluid communication between them can be a challenge.
That’s where rdesktop comes in.“Rdesktop is a Linux implementation of Remote Display Protocol
(RDP). Windows uses RDP to connect to other Windows computers via
Terminal Services. With rdesktop, you can open a remote control
session on a Windows NT/2000/XP machine from a Linux box…”
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