[plug] Re: VNC (was Gnome + Enlightenment + X Windows)

[Doug]

Afer reading the message from Trevor I headed off to 

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

to see what he was talking about. It sounds really fascinating, and it
struck me that a demo and talk would make an excellent topic for one of
the meetings..  What do some others think!

Doug Clulow
 
Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> BTW: I mentioned VNC at the last PLUG meeting and was rewarded by blank looks
> by most people. Don't many people know about this wonderful thing?? It's
> Thin-Client technology, allowing you to access a remote Desktop in a local
> Window. One machine has the VNC server, the other the VNC client, and it uses
> its own protocol. It's great because it works on many different machines;
> display your NT desktop on your Linux box, or run your Mac desktop inside a web
> browser (with the JAVA viewer).
> 
> And it's even better with UNIX, as UNIX is quite used to having separate
> desktops, so you set up a separate VNC server/desktop, which you can access
> anywhere, and it's also stateless! Use it from the Mac, then shift to your PC
> and finish typing a sentence!
> 
> Anyway, enough of the marketing. I find it handy, thought others may too. ^_^