Re: Virtual Network Computing

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>I good friend of mine in Florida pointed me to this on the net 
today. I did
>> some reading and it looks like a neat item to have.
>>
>> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/start.html
> Look at your BSware CD.  It's been an "extra" for quite a while.
> It's good stuff!

This is really good stuff.  Just FYI to anyone who uses it, but zlib 
patches are available that incorporate compression into VNC, making it 
MUCH faster over remote connections.  I connect to the Internet from 
home with a 56k modem, then VPN into the office with has a T1,  and am 
able to run StarOffice via VNC and it is quite usable (It can keep up 
with my typing).  Also the iXvnc patches let you run VNC via Inetd so 
a VNC session is created every time you point your viewer at it which 
is a very nice way of providing Linux hosted apps to a whole variety 
of platforms (Linux, Win9x, etc...)  It seems faster than networked-X 
and uses less bandwidth.