VNC, No Longer Orphaned

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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[Apreche]

I reformatted my hard drive and re-installed my OSes. Mandrake 9 is cool, but it doesn't come with pine! Anyway I went to re-download my apps and found that a new version of VNC came out days ago. I don't know if they formed a new company called realvnc because the web site is still at bell labs. I think they just changed the name of the program. The most welcome new feature is that you don't lose your wallpaper if you don't want to. Not to mention it is faster and better in every way. If you use VNC, get the new one. I must say that the icons for VNC are now uglier than they used to be, anyone got the old one?

Arrrrrgh!

[rice_burners_suck]

You know, I was about to write some interesting comments I had about VNC, but as I clicked on this story's "Read more" page, I noticed a huge square ad for Microsoft's Visual Studio! What, has Slashdot sold out?!?!? What is going on over here?

Re:Also check out TightVNC

[be-fan]

Well, my previous company was NorthPoint, which was SDSL, so it was 416K both ways. Second, I've got pretty standard Mindspring service, and its cap is at 384K, and I'm not paying any extra. There are a bunch of other ISPs around here that can offer the same service. I have to admit, though, broadband choices where I live are rather plentiful, so the situation elsewhere might be different.

Re:Yes!

[rosewood]

i guess I never understood the true power of SSH

I have always just used putty as a telnet replacement basically. I never knew I could do all this!

I recently needed people to have remote access to an as400 (which you connect through on the lan via telnet) and looking at this looks like instead of doing a complex IPSec tunnel, I woulda been fine with just this

Oh well, IPsec gives me some flexability for stuffs in the future

Thanks! Ill give it a try tomorrow, sleep time now

Re:THE RETURN ON THE BOFH TROLL!!!

[sinserve]

Oops, you only have ONE other post for today, make sure it is more witty than this ;-D

Microsoft Ads

[TephX]

If Microsoft is stupid enough to advertise on Slashdot, I say let 'em. They're subsidizing a website we like, and it's pretty unlikely to have much of an impact on their sales, given how polarized Slashdot readers already are. I mean, seriously. It's like buying an X-Box and never buying a game for it, but running Linux on it (Microsoft loses money on every X-Box sold) but we don't even have to go out and do anything, Microsoft is screwing themselves over with no help. Plus, I think it's pretty funny.