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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. Recently by Apreche · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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?

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  2. Re:Also check out TightVNC by be-fan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  3. Re:Yes! by rosewood · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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

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