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

[Michael Hunt]

I've been using VNC for about 6 months now (mostly in an NT enviro). and
have found it to be an excellent tool easy to use and configure if a bit
resource hungry. (The newer version for NT fixes this though I think). There
was a really great article about its use in thye Linux Journal not long back
and it give some very good hints for running it in a Linux enviro. I think
it would be an interesting topic to discuss and compare the merits of VNC
with say running an Xserver with a redirected display.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Doug
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 March 1999 8:52
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Re: VNC (was Gnome + Enlightenment + X Windows)
>
>
> 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. ^_^
>