[ale] XRDP

[JD]

Check into xen vdi.  I think you'll be surprised.  Rdp is not the best choice for remote desktops.

On April 23, 2014 2:00:18 AM EDT, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am trying to use xrdp in a testing environment. I am using opensuse
>on a
>64-bit machine. Is it as cpu and bandwidth friendly as microsoft's
>terminal
>server, or is this a pointless endeavor? What we're trying to do is run
>a
>web browser and a few other apps on a Linux box. I'm not sure if
>they'll be
>running on wine, but wine is cpu friendly. I don't know the whole scope
>of
>what my boss is trying to do, but I've been tasked with looking in to
>using
>linux as a terminal server.
>
>For example, we have customers who can easily fit 60 simultaneous users
>on
>a 2003 terminal server that is five years old, and it's responsive.
>
>We tested vnc in our lab, and it consumed a lot of resources on the
>server,
>to the point that it wouldn't scale as ms ts does.
>
>Any thoughts or ideas are welcomed.
>
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