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XRDPConfigurator - a GUI application for configuring XRDP - has now been released under the Apache License, by the author of the popular X11RDP-o-Matic.

X11RDP-o-Matic is a tool for Debian-based systems which automatically downloads, builds, installs, and makes packages of X11rdp and the latest version of xrdp.

Version 3 of the Scarygliders X11RDP-o-Matic has now been officially released.

Polkit/Policykit is what determines what permissions users have to perform certain operations on a Linux system.

It's here! It's improved! It works even better!

I call this the "ssta release", in honour of a pal of mine who made a request which I've now implemented. ( --justdoit option, see below).

I have sweated and toiled, lost sleep, learned a lot, re-learned a lot, tested, tested again, and ended up with something which should work for just about everyone – everyone that is, who's users are local to the system – anyone using Active Directory to login still won't be handled by the RDPsesconfig utility yet...

Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn't as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.

It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up remotely in a fast efficient way was nice – but it soon became apparent to RDP users that not all was well – RDP users couldn't do some of the nice convenient things that local desktoip users could do.

The author was asked how to enable Active Directory users to be able to log into xrdp. He found out.

Configuring and installing the X11rdp back-end server is a bit of a pain. This release does it all for you.

A pseudonym by the name of "Paul Murphy" over at zdnet blogs writes a pretty poor FUD piece about Linux/Linux users, and creates a straw man argument using linux.org. This article by HackFUD debunks and tears the article apart.

What he seems to be implying here is that if you use FOSS products, there’s no one to phone up and complain to if something with that product goes wrong. There’s no accountability. You can’t hold someone liable for something going wrong. What he’s also saying is that buying commercial (read : proprietary) software, then all these negatives Go Away. Not only that, but with the purchase of the commercial software, you’re getting a “guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested”, that you can hold the publishers of that software liable if something doesn’t work. Oh, really? Yeah. Right.

Okay, lets get one thing straight… Repeat after me : “The Open Document Foundation has nothing to do with the Open Document Format” “The Open Document Foundation has nothing to do with the Open Document Format” “The Open Document Foundation has nothing to do with the Open Document Format”

So the latest IDC quarterly server report is saying that shipments of servers with Linux on them are on a downturn, compared to shipments of servers with Windows Server on them. Game over, Linux, you are defeated.