Enabling the WSL to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios (opens in new tab)

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20 pointschung19054y ago10 comments

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This is the day that Microsoft releases a product using FreeRDP, the reverse engineered implementation of their own RDP protocol...

aDfbrtVt4y ago

FreeRDP is not quite reverse engineered, the software built based on open specification for RDP[1]. That being said, I would be surprised if the FreeRDP contributors did not need Wireshark during development.

[1] https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindo...

londons_explore4y ago

Didn't FreeRDP start before Microsoft released that documentation?

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nsonha4y ago

I don't get it why would they need to reverse engineer their own software? Was it some sort of RPC without an explicit protocol?

londons_explore4y ago

I guess they just decided the freerdp codebase (which already runs on Linux) was easier to work with than their codebase (which is deeply integrated into all things windows).

I think the original Microsoft codebase also uses stuff licensed from a third party, so it might have been impossible to opensource.

laacz4y ago

Well, migrating to WSL2 brought back memories when I moved from conventional HDD to SSD. Also, that might be how people feel when switching from Intel Mac to M1 one.

nsonha4y ago

maybe one day Windows becomes just a hypervisor and just maybe it's good enough for people to have a reason to run things on top of

hulitu4y ago

I think it will be the other way around. The are now in the "extend" phase.

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londons_explore4y ago

This is the day that Microsoft releases a product using FreeRDP, the reverse engineered implementation of their own RDP protocol...

aDfbrtVt4y ago

[1] https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindo...

londons_explore4y ago

Didn't FreeRDP start before Microsoft released that documentation?

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nsonha4y ago

I don't get it why would they need to reverse engineer their own software? Was it some sort of RPC without an explicit protocol?

londons_explore4y ago

I guess they just decided the freerdp codebase (which already runs on Linux) was easier to work with than their codebase (which is deeply integrated into all things windows).

I think the original Microsoft codebase also uses stuff licensed from a third party, so it might have been impossible to opensource.

laacz4y ago

Well, migrating to WSL2 brought back memories when I moved from conventional HDD to SSD. Also, that might be how people feel when switching from Intel Mac to M1 one.

nsonha4y ago

maybe one day Windows becomes just a hypervisor and just maybe it's good enough for people to have a reason to run things on top of

hulitu4y ago

I think it will be the other way around. The are now in the "extend" phase.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse