pAUL
RDP and ICA are proprietary protocols. RDP has been implemented in an
open source product (rdesktop), however to my knowledge nobody outside
of Citrix/MS has access to the specifications of ICA, and I would doubt
that Citrix would be interested in making the specifications available.
I agree esp as citrix have a *nix solution, RDP must be well known tho
as you say Rdesktop works and the nomachine people translate it into NX
Even if you forget ICA (RDP has a lot of ICA feature now anyway) its
still important to have the other path (allow RDP clients to NX servers)
You speak of reinvention, however you must be aware that the X protocol
upon which NX is based has been around far longer (in the Unix
environment) than either RDP or ICA.
Yes a noisey piece of shit it was to, unusable remotely, The sig part of
NX is the compression to make X usable
Or some part of Wine. If the application you want to share works well
enough in Wine then it should work just fine being served via NX. Bear
in mind that what I was originally discussing was an *easy* way for
developers to make their existing applications run on Linux. I guess if
you can move your Delphi/VCL app to Delphi/VCL.net, and a VCL.net could
be made to run with Mono or DotGNU (I don't know whether or not this is
possible yet) then that would be a solution. BTW last I checked (about 2
or 3 months ago) DotGNU actually appeared to be much further ahead than
Mono in terms of Windows Forms compatibility. What worries me most about
Mono/DotGNU though is the volume of patents that Microsoft is amassing,
which they may in future choose to enforce against developers or even
users of Mono/DotGNU.
The most immediate solution to the problem of course is to keep your
Terminal Server / Citrix servers around, migrate desktops (clients) to
Linux and run the Windows applications you need to run that way until
you are able complete the migration at a later date.
The point is, That from any management (Win or Lin) is I hate the
desktop/Terminal server combo (double the problems with no advantages),
If you have a TS, thin the clients down!. I think they'll be a huge
growth in dedicated thin client hardware as it is truly plug and play
(and can currently be linux based tho I don't know why Linus TS's are
more expensive)
Neven
Cheers,
Paul
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