Re: absolutely mind-blowing

[Peter Byström <peter.bystrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

"David L. Parsley" wrote:

> Ok, I've been kind of busy, and I've held off on trying rdesktop.  Heck,
> a few months ago, it wouldn't even connect to W2K!  Finally, today, I
> saw the new patch and thought 'ok, time to try it out'.  And yes, it
> blew my mind.  I was shocked when I stripped the binary, and it was only
> ~55k.  I did a double take when I first typed in the command and it
> _just_connected_.
>
> Honestly, have a round of vbrew on me.
>
> A few questions...
> 1) Who was the original developer, and has anyone heard from him/her in
> a while?  Peter Bystrom seems to be the most active right now.
>

Matthew Chapman <matthewc@cse.unsw.edu.au> is the author, he is alive, yes..
.;) He returned one of my emails a day ago.


>
> 2) Isn't it about time to make a 1.1beta, and post it on Freshmeat,
> Slashdot, etc.?
>

the call is up to Matt I believe.

>
> 3) Has anybody gone through the microsoft license with a fine-toothed
> comb?  Will they send their thugs to beat us up for using this?  (a year
> from now, I'd like to see Linux-based thin clients all over the place at
> the college)
>

not me, but it wouldn't surprice me if you still have to pay the NT 4 Wkstn
licence + terminal client licence, plus the server licence, even if you run
linux and rdesktop, you do, if you got an older version of windows, i.e. if
you run win 3.11, or win95/98 you will have to pay for an upgrade licence to
nt 4 wkstn...


>
> regards,
>         David
> --
> David L. Parsley
> Network Administrator
> Roanoke College

regards,

peter