Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

Posted by chung1905 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @11:15PM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:14AM (#26942172)

This is the day that Microsoft releases a product using FreeRDP, the reverse engineered implementation of their own RDP protocol...

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by aDfbrtVt on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:57AM (#26942527)

FreeRDP is not quite reverse engineered, the software built based on open specification for RDP[1]. That being said, I would be surprised if the FreeRDP contributors did not need Wireshark during development.

[1] https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindo...

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:53AM (#26943131)

Didn't FreeRDP start before Microsoft released that documentation?

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by aDfbrtVt on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:29PM (#26947656)

Possibly? Initial commit on FreeRDP is from 2011 while the oldest version listed on Microsoft's website is v0.01 from 2007. Not sure if that version of the documentation was publicly available.

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:24AM (#26953064)

FreeRDP's roots are in rdesktop which was released in 2001

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by nsonha on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:41AM (#26942987)

I don't get it why would they need to reverse engineer their own software? Was it some sort of RPC without an explicit protocol?

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by londons_explore on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:49AM (#26943089)

I guess they just decided the freerdp codebase (which already runs on Linux) was easier to work with than their codebase (which is deeply integrated into all things windows).

I think the original Microsoft codebase also uses stuff licensed from a third party, so it might have been impossible to opensource.

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by laacz on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:55AM (#26953605)

Well, migrating to WSL2 brought back memories when I moved from conventional HDD to SSD. Also, that might be how people feel when switching from Intel Mac to M1 one.

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by nsonha on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:43AM (#26943014)

maybe one day Windows becomes just a hypervisor and just maybe it's good enough for people to have a reason to run things on top of

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Re:Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X ser... by hulitu on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:34AM (#26953113)

I think it will be the other way around. The are now in the "extend" phase.

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