What is rdesktop?

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.

Key changes:

• Fix for potential vulnerability against compromised/malicious
• servers (reported by iDefense)
• Fix for crash with recent versions of X.Org
• Fix for connection to Windows 2008 Server
• ALSA driver added
• Sound drivers can now be selected at runtime
• Smartcard support (Alexi Volkov <alexi@my…>)
• Send physical mouse buttons rather than logical ones

Where I can get rdesktop?

rdesktop available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz?download