I setup rdesktop as an alternative to using Microsoft's RDC program that comes with Office 2004 and wanted to share my results.
First you can get rdesktop by installing Darwin Ports (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)
Add the following to your ~/.profile
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Then install rdesktop:
sudo port install rdesktop
Make sure you have X11 installed from the Mac OS X install disc.
As you can see in the screen shot, rdesktop uses barely 2 MB of memory, as opposed to 30 - 40 MB with RDC. Granted X11 uses about 20 MB of ram, rdesktop also uses less cpu than RDC (since it is not being run through Rosetta) and I have found it to be more responsive.
First you can get rdesktop by installing Darwin Ports (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)
Add the following to your ~/.profile
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Then install rdesktop:
sudo port install rdesktop
Make sure you have X11 installed from the Mac OS X install disc.
As you can see in the screen shot, rdesktop uses barely 2 MB of memory, as opposed to 30 - 40 MB with RDC. Granted X11 uses about 20 MB of ram, rdesktop also uses less cpu than RDC (since it is not being run through Rosetta) and I have found it to be more responsive.
