Remmina

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Remmina
Original author(s) Antenore Gatta and Giovanni Panozzo. Vic Lee (former)
Developer(s) Antenore Gatta, Giovanni Panozzo and Allan Nordhøy
Initial releaseOctober 8, 2009 (2009-10-08)
Stable release
1.4.29 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 20 December 2022
Repository gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina
Written in C
Platform POSIX
Available in28 languages
List of languages
Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Valencian
Type Remote desktop software
License GPL-2.0-or-later [2] [3]
Website remmina.org

Remmina is a remote desktop client for POSIX-based computer operating systems. It supports the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VNC, NX, XDMCP, SPICE, X2Go and SSH protocols and uses FreeRDP as foundation. [4] [5]

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Packaging

Remmina is in the package repositories for Debian versions 6 (Squeeze) and later and for Ubuntu versions since 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). [6] [7] As of 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), it replaced tsclient as Ubuntu's default remote desktop client. [8] [9] The FreeBSD ports/package collection also contains it as a separate port and additional protocol-specific plugin ports. [10]

Use

A common use is to connect to Windows machines, to use servers and computers remotely via Remote Desktop Services, [11] by system administrators [12] and novice users.

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