I’m a Linux and FreeBSD fan (though I live in a Windows world at work), and I’m always intrigued by unix tools that improve interoperability between unix and Windows. Today I spotted a reference to rdesktop in a discussion about PC Anywhere on a Windows-oriented security mailing list. It lets you use your Windows NT Terminal Server desktop from XWindows. Cool!
I don’t use Terminal Server at work, but if I did, this would bring me one step closer to being able to run unix at the office.
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All I gotta say is dang man, you’ve been blogging for a *long* time, way to keep it
Wow, it is 2008 and I’ve just read this!!! Nice post! Useful for me!