From ossman at cendio.se Wed Aug 29 12:26:45 2018 From: ossman at cendio.se (Pierre Ossman) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:26:45 +0200 Subject: [Thinlinc-announce] The future of RDP in ThinLinc Message-ID: Hi guys, We have some exciting changes going on at Cendio that we'd like to share with you. ThinLinc has had a long history and we've seen various shifts in our user base over that time. The last few years things have settled down and we now see a stable pattern of ThinLinc being used for Linux desktops and applications. Moving forward, we will focus even more on this and to deliver the best possible Linux remote desktop server that we can. However, in order to do this we need to start shedding some parts of ThinLinc that do not fit with this goal. The biggest such part is the Windows integration, i.e. the bundled rdesktop that is currently included with ThinLinc. The recently released ThinLinc 4.9.0 will be the last version to include Windows integration. We understand that some of you might be sad to see this part go. But we strongly believe that we can give you guys so much more with a more focused product. So what does this mean for those of you currently using the Windows integration? Short term, not much. ThinLinc 4.9.0 was just released and it will continue to work fine and be supported by us until its end of life in three years. The next time you upgrade you will need to use a different RDP client though. Fortunately almost every distribution includes either rdesktop or FreeRDP (many even have both). So in most cases it will be a simple matter of installing one of these, and tweaking any shortcuts or other launchers you have that currently use ThinLinc's tools. So to be completely clear, connecting to a RDP server from a ThinLinc session will continue to work just fine. The difference being that the required parts will have to be downloaded and installed separately. Several options are also available to provide commercial support for an RDP client beyond ThinLinc 4.9.0: - If you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux then support is included with your operating system support. - credativ[1] in Germany can offer support for both rdesktop and FreeRDP on a global basis, as well as any other Open Source software on your system. - Mutex[2] in New Zealand can also offer support for rdesktop and FreeRDP on a global basis. - Your local Linux partner might offer support services for these applications. Finally support can usually be found from the communities around rdesktop and FreeRDP, as well as the communities for your distribution of choice. If you have any questions or comments regarding these changes or anything else, then please get in touch with us. We hope you are as excited as we are about this and what this will allow us to deliver going forward. [1] https://www.credativ.com/ [2] https://mutex.nz/ Regards -- Pierre Ossman ThinLinc Product Owner Cendio AB https://cendio.com Teknikringen 8 https://twitter.com/ThinLinc 583 30 Link?ping https://facebook.com/ThinLinc Phone: +46-13-214600 https://plus.google.com/+CendioThinLinc A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?