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FedoraNews.org: Tutorial: Remote Desktop

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 9, 2004

[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung
for this link. ]

“The other day on the Fedora Development mailing list it was
mentioned why Fedora Core still uses rdesktop 1.2 rather than 1.3.
I found an interesting article about rdesktop 1.3 on NewsForge.
There are many graphical frontends to rdesktop, such as grdesktop
and my preference tsclient. So, if you’re too eager to wait for new
packages to be distrubuted, here are some simple steps to
downloading and compiling the lastest version of rdesktop and
tsclient.

“Download the tarball rdesktop-1.3.0.tar.gz from the following
URL:

“SourceForge.net – rdesktop

“And if you want to use tsclient, download the tarball
tsclient-0.132.tar.gz or the RPM tsclient-0.132-1.i386.rpm…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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