Remote desktop from Windows to Linux

[1] http://www.linux.org/threads/rdp-into-your-linux-desktop.8/
[2] http://ubuntuwiki.net/index.php/Xrdp,_installing
[3] http://askubuntu.com/questions/235905/use-xrdp-to-connect-to-desktop-session

Through VNC as most people traditionally did.
Through RDP. [1]


 yum install xrdp -y
# chkconfig --levels 35 xrdp on
# service xrdp start

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Under debian using xrdp + vino [2] [3]
 vi /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini

[globals]
bitmap_cache=yes
bitmap_compression=yes
port=3389
crypt_level=low
channel_code=1

# set empty username because VNC auth 
# doesn't actually use username, so no
# point in asking the user for one.

[xrdp1]
name=Active Local Login
lib=libvnc.so
username=
password=ask
ip=127.0.0.1
port=5900

[xrdp2]
name=Clean Session
lib=libvnc.so
username=
password=ask
ip=127.0.0.1 

port=5901 

$sudo vino-preferences