Remmina is a remote desktop client for

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-based computer operating systems. It supports the

Remote Desktop Protocol Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while ...

(RDP), VNC, NX, XDMCP,

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X2Go X2Go is open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses a modified NX_technology#Legacy technology , NX 3 protocol. X2Go gives remote access to a Linux system's graphical user interface. It can also be used to access Windows systems t ...

and SSH protocols and uses

FreeRDP Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while ...

as foundation.

Packaging

Remmina is in the package repositories for

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of De ...

versions 6 (Squeeze) and later and for Ubuntu versions since 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). As of 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), it replaced tsclient as Ubuntu's default remote desktop client. The

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...

ports/package collection also contains it as a separate port and additional protocol-specific plugin ports.

Use

A common use is to connect to Windows machines, to use servers and computers remotely via Remote Desktop Services, by system administrators and novice users.

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* Remote desktop Communication software Free communication software Free software programmed in C Remote desktop software that uses GTK 2009 software Virtual Network Computing Remote desktop software for Linux {{software-stub

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