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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-18024
2010-11-21 21:08:53
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Name : rdesktop
Product : Fedora 13
Version : 1.6.0
Release : 9.fc13
URL :
http://www.rdesktop.org/
Summary : X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server
Description :
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT
desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
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Update Information:
Fixes problems with not working sound by enabling libao (gives both ALSA and PulseAudio
support).
Also drops a hard dependency on pcsc-lite, which allows removing the smartcard-related
daemons from user's system (libraries are still necessary).
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Nov 20 2010 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm(a)greysector.net> - 1.6.0-9
- add libao support (supports ALSA and PulseAudio, should fix bugs
* Fri Aug 20 2010 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm(a)greysector.net> - 1.6.0-8
- drop hard dependency on pcsc-lite (bug #527712)
- add a proper source URL
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #503431 - cannot redirect sound because /dev/dsp not found
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503431
[ 2 ] Bug #527712 - unnecessary dependency on pcsc-lite?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527712
[ 3 ] Bug #577878 - RFE: Please enable libao support
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577878
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rdesktop' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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