Rust Desk

I seem to remember the RustDesk one-man show that didn't answer all community questions related to the open source server part, was a bit of an outstanding question as to the motives and trustworthiness.

Difficult though, as I also think there might have just been some cultural bias and shyness issues too.

This fork looks a bit better at explaining itself.

Rare to see FOSS on GitLab first nowadays, that's interesting. Despite it still being quite the disrupter in the space.

Worth a read:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HopToDesk/

stbg

Ok, super, so as license is good, could you please add it, @girish ?

@marcusquinn, true, FOSS being first on GitLab is rare, but it happens, see Baserow.

Although I'd still like to know more about who is behind HopToDesk.

What I don't understand with RustDesk is that the dev has an amazing star history on Github, but then hasn't figured out the business model – which is blocking him.

With licensing being not clear, it can't be here. Nice rhym
aka on Cloudron.

jdaviescoates

@stbg said in Rust Desk:

With licensing being not clea

I'm confused. What license is not clear?

Rust Desk and HopToDesk are clearly both AGPL-3.0 license :

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/blob/master/LICENSE
https://gitlab.com/hoptodesk/hoptodesk/-/blob/main/LICENSE

stbg

@jdaviescoates: see here, what girish wrote above:

@girish said in Rust Desk:

I am not sure what is open source and what is not.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/30 says the "API Server" is not. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/26 says "it is not ready yet". https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/20 then says it is free and open source.

Looks like they are trying to figure out the business model.

jdaviescoates

@stbg thanks, I just asked for clarity in their Discord.

Someone (not a RustDesk dev, but someone who is aware of what's being done) replied:

Rustdesk Client - AGPL-3.0
Rustdesk Server - AGPL-3.0
The API (addressbook etc) hasnt been released yet so whether its opensource or not it wouldnt stop anything, also there are afew opensource addressbooks being worked on

I also spotted they have docs for self-hosting here:
https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/

This is the install script:
https://github.com/techahold/rustdeskinstall

stbg

@jdaviescoates wow, super, thanks for figuring that out!
@girish can you add the service now? + hoptodesk? (see thread above)

potemkin_ai

Upvoting as well

stevespaw

OK I have installed this on a separate server - it was super easy with Docker. I did not do the "pro" version, just the OSS. The only "downside" is that you have to send a text file with ServerID (IP address) and Key (which you can get from the docker log easily). The performance is awesome - if this was Cloudron it would be amazing. Please !

stevespaw

https://rustdesk.com/blog/2024/10/rustdesk-web-client-v2-preview/

The last part I have not spent time on is the ws setting to allow this to connect in a web browser:

https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/rustdesk-server-pro/faq/#8-add-websocket-secure-wss-support-for-the-id-server-and-relay-server-to-enable-secure-communication-for-the-web-client

This would be really great! (some nginx stuff)

marcusquinn

@stevespaw Also agreed!

hollosch

@girish could you have a look to newest version of rust? And would this be a possible app for cloudron?

overholt

I'd like to see this as well.

marcusquinn

While you wait, I believe Hetzner has a disk image with this on it.

visamp

I'd love to have this as well. Plus 1

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