Windows Terminal Server Replacement?

Evanrude asks: "In my never ending quest to eliminate the Windows operating system from my life, I have yet to find a Linux replacement for the Windows Terminal Server product/service. I have come across the Linux Terminal Server Project but from everything I have read about it, you must boot a diskless workstation to use it, there is no client to connect to it from say a remote workstation [read: internet or remote VPN client]. There is also the Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server for Unix, but I am really looking for something that will run on Linux. I have also googled for anything related to Linux and the Remote Desktop Protocol, but have not had good luck. Has anyone had any experience with replacing a Windows Terminal Server with something Linux based or know of any other projects that might be more on track with this than the LTSP?"

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Re:If you're trying to get away from Windows...

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Ok, let's say you're running something like a high-end engineering/modeling program (like IDEAS, etc.), and need the computing power of a large system (or cluster). Then you can use a terminal server to connect, and have a speed that wouldn't be possible with a single workstation. While this might be a good scenario for grid computing, not all applications are grid-based, and some network architectures just don't accommodate a grid well.