ICA client for Linux vs rdesktop RDP client running under Linux

[Todd Meade <Todd.Meade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Other than colors/sound, is there some advantage to installing Citrix Server
on my Win2K server and running the ICA client under Linux.  Any
disadvantages other than cost (performance, stability)?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Ossmann [mailto:michael.ossmann@alttech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:33 AM
> To: Darran D. Rimron-Molloy
> Cc: Santiago Garcia Mantinan; rdesktop@rdesktop.org
> Subject: Re: RDP and sound
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:34:02PM -0000, Darran D. 
> Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> > 
> > Now, this IS NOT gospel truth, far from it,  it's ONLY from 
> my rather vague
> > and frequently faulty memory - but Wyse WinTerm's have had 
> sound support
> > build into their clients for a while - although I think it 
> was only RDP4 on
> > the colourdepth aspects. Although that could have been more 
> of a WinCE issue
> > than a RDP one.  If anyone is interested, I can probably 
> get my hands on a
> > WinTerm from WYSE to test it against, if someone REALLY 
> wants to know.
> 
> WinTerms support sound with ICA but not RDP.  (Though this 
> will probably
> change as soon as XP Server is out.)
> 
> > > I asked a Citrix/Windows guru who sits next to me, and he 
> says that
> > > there is no publicly available RDP 5.1 server at this 
> time.  It will be
> > > included with Windows XP Server, but he doesn't know 
> whether or not they
> > > will release it in a Win2k service pack.
> > 
> > There is always WinXP Professional - which gives you single 
> user RDP5.1,
> > IIRC.
> 
> Ah yes.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor
> Alternative Technology, Inc.  http://www.alttech.com/
>