[KLUG Members] rdesktop

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 16:42, Adam Bultman wrote:
> rdesktop is 'the bomb'.  I've used it for around year. It's much faster,
> better, and stable than VNC.

Of course.  VNC is a remote frame buffer (RFB) approach that sends
pixels, akin to pcAnywhere and similar programs.  Rdesktop is a remote
display/widget architecture, that sends only widget metadata, similar to
X-Windows.

-- Bryan

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