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Any desktop can do remote desktop. The normal way to do it in Linux is using ssh. You can call application from any unix complicant OS (freedsd, mac os, solaris and linux) and Windows xming or cygwin. SSH client is installed by default in any linux distribution and server in most of them. To install is in Ubuntu, type
thanks but i didn't mean ssh, i can do that fine. lol
but lets say i wana connect to my linux server from my vista desktop at home, but i want to be able to use the GUI interface KDE or GNOME
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