: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Freddy Jensen)
: I have not seen any patches or new releases of
: VNC coming out of AT&T for almost a year now.
: [...]
: I was especially hoping for TightVNC to be
: incorporated into the main codebase.
There was some splash last year about Tridia funding
a site for new development and maintenance. See
http://www.developvnc.org/
which is their open-source not-for-proffit site for this purpose.
They offer cvs access to the source code, developer mailing lists, and
so on and so forth. I don't see anything happening there either, but
they seem to have a more uniform and updated baseline than the ATT site.
In particular, they have incorporated most of the tightVNC protocol
extensions into all their released copylefted distributions, as well as
zlib compression protocol extensions.
Unfortunately, they stopped before folding in the stuff
from hexonet (ie, x0rfbserver was incorporated for a while, but
fell out of the releases later on, and they never picked up support
for scaling that rfbviewer had). (Which is a major disappointment
of mine, by the way: work on a general proxy-based scaling mechanism,
presumably a nice one with antialiasing, was announced but never
done at the hexonet site... sigh.)
http://www.hexonet.de/software/rfb/
There was an announcement of a linux kernel framebuffer version
of a vncviewer, which was one of the projects they said was upcoming,
but it was somebody else who finally did it.
: David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Any particular reason you can't just use TightVNC? I've been using it
: for quite a while now and it seems to be every bit as stable as the
: "official" AT&T version.
I think the Tridia versions are slightly more stable.
I haven't run into problems on most any versions, but
I've heard Nth-hand that others have.
In any event, I use the version from
http://www.tightvnc.org/
In my case, that's because Tridia didn't pick up the very last bit of
development done there, which got local cursor handling working among a
few other fine points. I didn't need the compression as much as I
needed the better hand-eye feedback provided by avoiding latency in
cursor handling.
Or in other words, I found ATT with ssh -C, or Tridia, was plenty fast
enough for my environment, either one. But the cursor handling was just
too good to be without, in my environment where latency is the main
issue, rather than bandwidth.
Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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