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VNC, No Longer Orphaned

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pc-anywhere-with-the-right-price dept.

geogeek6_7 writes "Icronic informs us of a couple new developments to everyone's favorite piece of remote-managment software, VNC. You may remember that the UK Lab responsible for the creation and maintainence of VNC closed. A company called RealVNC has been formed, sporting the original coders from the AT&T lab, and aiming to 'act as the focal point for open source VNC.' Secondly, the new company has released version 3.3.4 of VNC for Windows and Linux. Greater security and a new, speed-enhancing auto-encoding feature are included among many others in the new version."

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  1. This is awesome! by seann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love vnc, with a passion. I also love Tightvnc, and all its varients. VNC is the one thing that makes me feel safe when I leave my computer because I know it's a broadband connection away.

    Even at work!

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  2. A bit off topic..... by mao+che+minh · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But this VNC solution is really solid in a mixed Windows, Novell, and MAC OS X enviornment. It can save some real dollars and it helps in large networks that are understaffed. Just a FYI, you should look into it.

    No, I do not work for them - but rather an evil empire that clears 9 billion a year worldwide.

  3. VNC / Remote action by rosewood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been using VNC long before I started using linux. As soon as I started the Linux environment, I used VNC for remote access.

    Question: Is there a way to use VNC (or other) to access the main X session (I guess tty0 in rh 7.3) and share it similar to how it is shared in windows?

    While I speak of remote access, maybe someone can tell me why when I am @ an ssh shell, my path etc is never set.

    Everyone has mentioned tightvnc, so I dont think thats needed but I will say that I found it really interesting when Farmers Insurance rolled out all the Dells to agents across the country, VNC was installed and running on every box.

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    1. Re:VNC / Remote action by ensignyu · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Try xrfb (X11) or krfb (easy-to-use setup for KDE3) ... VNC servers that forward the input/screen to/from a real X server.

  4. Awesome? You are... by EvilAlien · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ... a broadband connection away from the bad people sharing that network with you. I hope you have strong passwords and some sort of ACL or firewall in between your VNC box and the world.

    VNC is a dangerous toy without security, whether that be via SSH or tunnelling plus a firewall.

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  5. Windows and Linux... by NoMercy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I do hope they remember that VNC was and is used on more than the popular desktops, Ive seen versions for every obscure platform Ive ever layed eyes on, and they should aim to keep it working on most *nix OS's and others.

  6. Re:Microsoft Ads by AngryAndDrunk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft loses money on every X-Box sold

    That's true, but don't forget that they lose even more money on every XBox produced that isn't sold, and it costs you nothing :-)

  7. PLEASE! Do not fork further by egghat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    VNC is already split into the original distribution from ORL (now RealVNC, TightVNC from Constantin & friends, eSVNC, which added security and file transfers (though win only) and a bunch of Pocket PC, Palm, MacOS, OS X etc. forks.

    VNC is such a wonderful und useful program and I sometimes dream of how much better, securer and faster it could be.

    Plaese combine your efforts. The world will thank you.

    bye egghat.

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