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The methods listed above are recommended because they put the least amount of load on the servers and should provide adequate performance. However, there is an alternate method using RDP (Remote Desktop) that will work on some of our Linux servers. For those systems you can connect using the native Remote Desktop client (Windows), the Microsoft Remote Desktop App (Mac OS X), or either xfreerdb xfreerdp or rdesktop (Linux). You will get a full GUI desktop using this method so you can start any GUI application you need. The downside of this approach is that since you are running a full GUI desktop it puts much more load on the server and your performance may suffer. For that reason, we urge you to use the above OS-specific methods and only use RDP as a last resort if those do not work for you.
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