# FreeRDP **URL:** \ **Category:** SLED Applications\ **Created:** [September 26, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/freerdp/21651 "2011-09-26T14:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/freerdp/21651/1 "2011-09-26T14:16:03Z")
Anyone know why FreeRDP has appeared in the Updates channel? ‘NOVELL: Downloads - freerdp 5165’ ([http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=vniEQFsmACQ~](http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=vniEQFsmACQ~)) It’s not actually an update in the usual sense, it’s a new package. The above linked download page doesn’t explain why it’s been introduced. Perhaps it’s explained in the linked bug which I can’t access. I’ve found it supports SSL connections, which rdesktop doesn’t. I was looking for an SSL capable RDP client for Linux last week and totally failed to find one. So the appearance of FreeRDP in the Updates channel is a nice coincidence. ## – mikewillis mikewillis’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=7510](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=7510) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=445464](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=445464) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/freerdp/21651/2 "2011-09-26T14:58:24Z")
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:16:03 GMT mikewillis [mikewillis@no-mx.forums.novell.com](mailto:mikewillis@no-mx.forums.novell.com) wrote: [color=blue] > Anyone know why FreeRDP has appeared in the Updates channel? ‘NOVELL: > Downloads - freerdp 5165’ > ([http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=vniEQFsmACQ~](http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=vniEQFsmACQ~)) > It’s not actually an update in the usual sense, it’s a new package. > > The above linked download page doesn’t explain why it’s been > introduced. Perhaps it’s explained in the linked bug which I can’t > access. > > I’ve found it supports SSL connections, which rdesktop doesn’t. I was > looking for an SSL capable RDP client for Linux last week and totally > failed to find one. So the appearance of FreeRDP in the Updates > channel is a nice coincidence. > > [/color] > Hi > It is meant to better than rdesktop 😉 I did build freerdp-xrdp a couple of weeks ago; [http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=freerdp-xrdp+&baseproject=ALL&lang=en&include\_home=true&exclude\_debug=true](http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=freerdp-xrdp+&baseproject=ALL&lang=en&include_home=true&exclude_debug=true) – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 11.4 (x86\_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop up 6:36, 4 users, load average: 0.27, 0.29, 0.24 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/freerdp/21651/3 "2011-09-27T13:16:03Z")
malcolmlewis;2140979 Wrote:[color=blue] > It is meant to better than rdesktop 😉 > [/color] So has it been introduced just because it’s supposed to be better than rdesktop? The introduction of a new package like this is very rare, I’d have thought Novell might make some effort to explain the reason for it’s inclusion. All it says on the download page is “This provides an alternative RDP client.” It doesn’t explain how it differs from the already included RDP client or why you might want to use it instead. malcolmlewis;2140979 Wrote:[color=blue] > I did build freerdp-xrdp a couple of weeks ago; > ‘[software.opensuse.org](http://software.opensuse.org): Search Results’ > ([http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=freerdp-xrdp+&baseproject=ALL&lang=en&include\_home=true&exclude\_debug=true](http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=freerdp-xrdp+&baseproject=ALL&lang=en&include_home=true&exclude_debug=true)) > [/color] How is that actually related to FreeDRP? I built the development version of FreeRDP 1.0 from git to see if I could get RemoteApp support to work, (I couldn’t), and a server binary (xfreerdp-server) was built as well as the client, but it doesn’t look like it’s the same as what’s in your freerdp-xrdp package. xrdp appears to be an entirely separate project, although there is some brief mention on it’s website about collaboration with FreeRDP. ## – mikewillis mikewillis’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=7510](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=7510) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=445464](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=445464)