VNC, No Longer Orphaned

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 27, 2002 @04:28PM 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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PLEASE! Do not fork further by egghat · 2002-09-27 23:31 · 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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