Re: recommendations for alternatives to rdp

> can anyone recommend a free/open protocol which will perform better?
I do quite a bit of remote-support work, so I've had a swing at most of 
them.
(I've given Citrix's solutions, but I really don't like it at all)

As per the other comments (which I read very quickly), I'd have to 
concur that RDP is pretty decent (way better than VNC IMHO) in most 
cases. If you're concerned about the Libre aspect, try xrdp - making no 
promises there.
The only case where this has not been the case is where you can pull the 
app through via (compressed) remote-X over a local LAN.

TeamViewer comes highly recommended - especially from a complexity 
p.o.v. It's simple for laymen end-users to download, run (no install 
required), provide the ID & PWD over phone & go from there (does P2P 
after the initial setup), & works a charm in Wine to boot.
I see skype apparently does this now too.
Mikogo works in a similar fashion, but is a bit more complicated

As for client, I use either Remmina (as my multi-protocol client in 
Ubuntu) or mRemoteNG as my windows client (both FLOSS).

Some other candidates to consider (clients & servers - grabbed from my 
internal wiki, so please excuse formatting):


      Control & Screen-sharing

  * SSH
  * XDMCP (Remote-X)
  * VNC
      o ThinVNC <http://www.supportsmith.com/ThinVNC/HTML5-VNC.aspx>- HTML5
  * RDP
      o http://www.xrdp.org/
  * TeamViewer <https://www.teamviewer.com/>
  * Mikogo <http://www.mikogo.com/>
  * ShowMyPC <http://showmypc.com/>
  * SkyFex <https://skyfex.com/>
  * CrossLoop <http://www.crossloop.com/>
  * NoMachine NX <http://www.nomachine.com/>orFreeNX
    <https://freenx.berlios.de/>
  * PC Anywhere /LogMeIn <https://secure.logmein.com/>


      Conferencing & Presentation

  * YuuGuu <http://www.yuuguu.com/>
  * DimDim <http://www.dimdim.com/>
  * GoToMeeting <http://www.gotomeeting.com/>


    Clients

  * Terminal Server Client
  * Remmina <http://remmina.sourceforge.net/>


  References & Resources

  * NX
      o https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX
      o https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NomachineNX



Best of luck - let me know if I should add anything to my collection

- J
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