IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol

Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by tracker1 on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:24PM (#43439297)

The main protocol should be well outside patent protection, but some of the extensions (RemoteFX, audio support, etc) may still be covered, would have to double-check. Likely fine.

I would like to see something as capable make its way into Linux and Mac that's as ubiquitous. RDP tends to work better than the VNC options most other solutions are using under the hood.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by bee_rider on Friday March 21, 2025 @03:18PM (#43439864)

I’m really baffled as to why anybody would downvote this comment, anyone want to explain?

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by iforgotpassword on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:23PM (#43440399)

How about spice? I don't know anything about the technical details, but it seems to offer most of the advanced features like usb redirect and I think currently gets video support. It's currently really only used in qemu but I don't see a reason why you can't use it as a general open rdp alternative.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by inversetelecine on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:25PM (#43441785)

Gnome and KDE both support RDP in recent releases. Works ok, but connecting is not as seamless as Windows, at least with mstsc.exe. I’ve found it somewhat buggy too (blank or black screens until rebooted for example.)

One of the big things holding me back was good Remote Desktop experience on Linux. Using Gnome RDP has been good enough for basic use for me.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by sitkack on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:36PM (#43441862)

If you are connecting to an RDS host, you need a CAL.

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs/blob/main...

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by IcyWindows on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:10PM (#43448266)

Not to connect to a regular computer. That is only for connecting to a terminal server.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by trelane on Saturday March 22, 2025 @01:01PM (#43447092)

"should be" is fine, right until Microsoft's lawyers show up at your door and you get to hire representation to defend yourself.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by sitkack on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:40PM (#43441887)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/t...

I don't think the Free Software ecosystem should touch RDP. It only fuels Microsoft even more.

If Microsoft was the company they pretend to be, they would Open Source (Apache) DOS 6.22, FAT/ExFAT, RDP and they would allow for side loading of applications on Xbox.

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