- Remmina VS FreeRDP
- Compare Remmina vs FreeRDP and see what are their differences.
- Remmina
- FreeRDP
- Remmina
- FreeRDP
- What are some alternatives?
- FreeRDP VS Remmina
- Compare FreeRDP vs Remmina and see what are their differences.
- FreeRDP
- Remmina
- FreeRDP
- Remmina
- What are some alternatives?
- Полнофункциональный RDP клиент — FreeRDP
- FreeRDP
- Remmina
Remmina VS FreeRDP
Compare Remmina vs FreeRDP and see what are their differences.
Remmina
FreeRDP
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| Remmina | FreeRDP | |
|---|---|---|
| Project | ||
| 47 | Mentions | 60 |
| 1,981 | Stars | 8,438 |
| 0.7% | Growth | 2.2% |
| 7.8 | Activity | 9.8 |
| 3 days ago | Latest Commit | 1 day ago |
| C | Language | C |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | License | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we’ve tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars — the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth — month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Remmina
Posts with mentions or reviews of Remmina. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
On linux I use remmina to do basically the same thing. I actually think remmina is better, it’s really too bad it’s linux only.
There is Remmina, but I am not sure it will satisfy your needs. It would be nice to have a well made cross-platform ssh connections manager for people who connect to a lot of servers.
I had good results using Remmina (https://remmina.org/) for RDP to a Windows host from a Raspberry Pi. The only thing that let it down at the time was a lack of «clean» multi-monitor support. I’m not sure if it’s been improved in the year since I last tried, but you could fudge it by creating a single window that was 2x monitors wide.
Well, i type ‘ssh’ for ssh in my terminal 🙂 You probably mean a gui for everything together, right? I use Remmina for the windows remotes I have to use at work sometimes from my Linux machine, works good enough and supports all protocols you listed.
I guess Remmina or Ásbrú Connection Manager is worth trying out. Ásbrú seems to be more a universal tool for all types of connections, while Remmina only focus on remote desktop. I’ve only used Remmina myself, and it does what it’s supposed to (tested it with RDP, VNC and SPICE)
Depending on the Linux distro, you’ll have a built in viewer or you can try another one. I personally like Remmina
FreeRDP
Posts with mentions or reviews of FreeRDP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
Our Linux and Mac users have long used RDP to log into Windows. That’s largely obsolete, so the plan is for the remaining Windows to be Infrastructure-as-Code via DSC.
For Linux there is XRDP as well as FreeRDP https://www.freerdp.com both open sourced recreations of the original RDP standard and available for Operating Systems like Linux.
FreeRDP has it’s own RDP implementation; you can get Windows binaries here (click arch=win64 or arch=win32, and you’ll get a list of downloads – you just need wfreerdp.exe).
Note that the program must be configured entirely through command line, and unfortunately the documentation isn’t great; you can get list of all supported command-line options by running wfreerdp.exe > wfreerdp.txt from command prompt.
Interestingly, the RDP protocol does have support for sending stylus pressure but FreeRDP does not implement the client end (and I assume other linux RDP clients don’t either).
It’s not quite as fast as it gets, as it still (years later) doesn’t support the UDP protocol option: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/4978
I’m not quite familiar with RDS specifically, but did you look at: Rustdesk, Teleport, FreeRDP, xRDP? Assuming these may not be relevant/you tried them already, but thought I’d share
I have recently found that SteamOS 3.2 has FreeRDP installed by default, specifically freerdp-shadow-cli, a utility that mirrors an existing X11 session.
What are some alternatives?
Tiger VNC — High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server
rustdesk — Virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! Open source TeamViewer / Citrix alternative.
xrdp — xrdp: an open source RDP server
rdpwrap — RDP Wrapper Library
KasmVNC — Modern VNC Server and client, web based and secure
wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
libvncserver — LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries that allow you to easily implement VNC server or client functionality in your program.
xpra — Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.
Bring — Remote control library for the Apache Guacamole protocol (RDP/VNC)
mRemoteNG — mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
LibSSH-ESP32 — Libssh SSH client & server port to ESP32 Arduino library
FreeRDP VS Remmina
Compare FreeRDP vs Remmina and see what are their differences.
FreeRDP
Remmina
- SonarLint — Clean code begins in your IDE with SonarLint
- InfluxDB — Collect and Analyze Billions of Data Points in Real Time
- SaaSHub — Software Alternatives and Reviews
| FreeRDP | Remmina | |
|---|---|---|
| Project | ||
| 60 | Mentions | 47 |
| 8,438 | Stars | 1,981 |
| 2.2% | Growth | 0.7% |
| 9.8 | Activity | 7.8 |
| 1 day ago | Latest Commit | 3 days ago |
| C | Language | C |
| Apache License 2.0 | License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we’ve tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars — the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth — month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FreeRDP
Posts with mentions or reviews of FreeRDP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
Our Linux and Mac users have long used RDP to log into Windows. That’s largely obsolete, so the plan is for the remaining Windows to be Infrastructure-as-Code via DSC.
For Linux there is XRDP as well as FreeRDP https://www.freerdp.com both open sourced recreations of the original RDP standard and available for Operating Systems like Linux.
FreeRDP has it’s own RDP implementation; you can get Windows binaries here (click arch=win64 or arch=win32, and you’ll get a list of downloads – you just need wfreerdp.exe).
Note that the program must be configured entirely through command line, and unfortunately the documentation isn’t great; you can get list of all supported command-line options by running wfreerdp.exe > wfreerdp.txt from command prompt.
Interestingly, the RDP protocol does have support for sending stylus pressure but FreeRDP does not implement the client end (and I assume other linux RDP clients don’t either).
It’s not quite as fast as it gets, as it still (years later) doesn’t support the UDP protocol option: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/4978
I’m not quite familiar with RDS specifically, but did you look at: Rustdesk, Teleport, FreeRDP, xRDP? Assuming these may not be relevant/you tried them already, but thought I’d share
I have recently found that SteamOS 3.2 has FreeRDP installed by default, specifically freerdp-shadow-cli, a utility that mirrors an existing X11 session.
Remmina
Posts with mentions or reviews of Remmina. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
On linux I use remmina to do basically the same thing. I actually think remmina is better, it’s really too bad it’s linux only.
There is Remmina, but I am not sure it will satisfy your needs. It would be nice to have a well made cross-platform ssh connections manager for people who connect to a lot of servers.
I had good results using Remmina (https://remmina.org/) for RDP to a Windows host from a Raspberry Pi. The only thing that let it down at the time was a lack of «clean» multi-monitor support. I’m not sure if it’s been improved in the year since I last tried, but you could fudge it by creating a single window that was 2x monitors wide.
Well, i type ‘ssh’ for ssh in my terminal 🙂 You probably mean a gui for everything together, right? I use Remmina for the windows remotes I have to use at work sometimes from my Linux machine, works good enough and supports all protocols you listed.
I guess Remmina or Ásbrú Connection Manager is worth trying out. Ásbrú seems to be more a universal tool for all types of connections, while Remmina only focus on remote desktop. I’ve only used Remmina myself, and it does what it’s supposed to (tested it with RDP, VNC and SPICE)
Depending on the Linux distro, you’ll have a built in viewer or you can try another one. I personally like Remmina
What are some alternatives?
Tiger VNC — High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server
rustdesk — Virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! Open source TeamViewer / Citrix alternative.
xrdp — xrdp: an open source RDP server
rdpwrap — RDP Wrapper Library
KasmVNC — Modern VNC Server and client, web based and secure
wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
libvncserver — LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries that allow you to easily implement VNC server or client functionality in your program.
xpra — Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.
Bring — Remote control library for the Apache Guacamole protocol (RDP/VNC)
mRemoteNG — mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
LibSSH-ESP32 — Libssh SSH client & server port to ESP32 Arduino library
Полнофункциональный RDP клиент — FreeRDP
Не секрет, что в современном мире без продуктов Microsoft практически не обойтись. Однако во многих случаях получается так, что гораздо эффективней использовать на рабочих компьютерах системы на базе GNU/Linux, а не Windows. Это значительно упрощает администрирование и сокращает расходы, предоставляя при этом пользователям гораздо больше легкодоступного функционала. Но что делать с теми приложениями, которые работают только под Windows и которым нет подходящего аналога в мире Linux? Поскольку обычно таких приложений единицы (иначе просто нету смысла ставить Linux на рабочий компьютер), то разумным выбором может стать использование терминальных серверов, работающих под серверными ОС от Microsoft. Кроме того, Linux лучше всего подходит для любых тонких клиентов, поскольку адекватных версий Windows для них просто не существует.
В любом случае необходимо уметь подключаться к терминальным серверам Windows. Для этого в MS был разработан свой протокол удалённого рабочего стола — RDP. Однако до недавнего времени для Linux существовал единственный открытый клиент для работы с этим протоколом — rdesktop. К сожалению, его развитие давно остановилось, и он испытывает огромные трудности при взаимодействии с современными версиями Windows.
Но недавно тихо и незаметно проект rdesktop был форкнут, в результате чего на свет появился новый открытый RDP клиент — FreeRDP. Первый же релиз этой программы разом исправил большинство известных проблем rdesktop, и проект продолжает активно развиваться. Почему-то появление столь полезного приложение обошли вниманием, поэтому я и решил опубликовать этот пост, чтобы хоть как-то исправить эту ситуацию и рассказать всем о существовании нормального RDP клиента для Linux. Под катом — описание возможностей FreeRDP и немного про отличную графическую оболочку Remmina для него.
FreeRDP
- Произведён значительный рефакторинг кода. Пользовательский интерфейс полностью переписан и отделён от основной библиотеки, реализована система плагинов.
- Код максимально приведён в соответствие со спецификацией RDP от Microsoft и подробно комментирован.
- Переписана работа с клавиатурой — больше никаких проблем с раскладками.
- Переписана работа с принтерами, звуком и другими пробрасываемыми устройствами и сервисами.
- Исправлены проблемы с указателем и лицензиями при подключении к серверу терминалов Windows 2008.
- Реализовано кеширование графики (bitmap caching), что позволяет значительно повысить производительность.
- В данный момент не реализована поддержка проброса COM портов и поддержка смарт-карт.
- Убрана поддержка режима SeamlessRDP в пользу реализации RemoteApp, которой правда тоже пока что нет.
Remmina
Кроме того, один из самых удобных графических менеджеров подключений к удалённым рабочим столам Remmina с версии 0.8 перешёл на использование FreeRDP в качестве RDP клиента.
В версии 0.8 также реализована поддержка .rdp файлов Windows, все протоколы теперь являются отдельными плагинами, добавлена поддержка IPv6 и произведено много мелких улучшений и исправлений ошибок.