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There *is* a linux citrix clientThere *is* a linux citrix clientPosted Jan 2, 2006 13:06 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)In reply to: There *is* a linux citrix client by dps Parent article: US Government Grants Site not Linux Friendly
As you say - citrix ica/metaframe has reasonable cross-platform support, but to give you an idea of the usefulness of that support outside the mainstream, I offer you a datapoint. Two years ago I spent a week or two trying to get the linux/arm client to work on something other than the Netwinder/Red-Hat target it was compiled for (in 2000), with very limited success, despite access to Citrix Support.
This merely illustrates the problems of binary-only 'support' for software as diverse as GNU/Linux on multiple architectures.
In practice it seems that even Windows Remote Desktop is actually (much) better-supported than Citrix MetaFrame because there is a published standard for it, and corresponding Free Software (rdesktop).
The situation may have improved since last time I prodded it (although the posted ARM client download is still ancient), but my current advice to anyone with a choice would be use NX, VNC, or Rdesktop before Citrix, especially if you need to use it on anything non-x86.
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