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From : Boris Tobotras 2:5020/510 24 Feb 98 19:54:36
Subj : VNC
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http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/
Virtual Network Computing
[VNC logo] from ORL [ORL]
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[Home] [Image] VNC Freely available here!
[screenshots]
[free?] What is VNC? - A practical introduction
[getting started]
[documentation] VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It
[download] is, in essence, a remote display system which
[keep in touch] allows you to view a computing 'desktop'
[FAQs] environment not only on the machine where it is
[VNC people] running, but from anywhere on the Internet and
[ORL] from a wide variety of machine architectures.
[Example screenshots using X desktops]
The VNC system allows you to
access the same desktop from a
wide variety of platforms.
Many of us at ORL, for example, use a VNC
viewer running on a PC on our desks to display
our Unix environments which are running on a
large server in the machine room downstairs.
What makes it different from other systems?
For this simple mode of operation, you could
achieve a similar effect by installing an X
server on your PC. The important factors which
distinguish VNC from other remote display
systems such as X are as follows:
* No state is stored at the viewer. This
means you can leave your desk, go to
another machine, whether next door or
several hundred miles away, reconnect to
your desktop from there and finish the
sentence you were typing. Even the cursor
will be in the same place.
* It is small and simple. The Win32 viewer,
for example, is about 150K in size and can
be run directly from a floppy. There is no
installation needed.
* It is truly platform-independent. A
desktop running on a Linux machine may be
displayed on a PC. Or a Solaris machine.
Or any number of other architectures. The
simplicity of the protocol makes it easy
to port to new platforms. We have a Java
viewer, which will run in any Java-capable
browser. We have a Windows NT server,
allowing you to view the desktop of a
remote NT machine on any of these
platforms using exactly the same viewer.
(The NT server is not multi-user - see the
documentation). We developed VNC to give
us platform-independence after the success
of our Teleporting system, which was
purely X-based.
* It is sharable. One desktop can be
displayed and used by several viewers at
once, allowing CSCW-style applications.
* It is free! You can download it, use it,
and redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU Public Licence.
Where does the name come from?
The name originates from our development of
very-thin-client ATM network computers. The
Videotile was essentially an LCD display with a
pen input and a fast ATM connection. Because
the VNC viewer is a software-only version of
our Videotile, and so provides 'workstations'
which can be created or deleted at will, we
named the system Virtual Network Computing.
Can I see what it looks like?
We have some screenshots of very simple VNC
desktops running and being displayed on a
variety of platforms.
More details can be found in the documentation
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Copyright 1998 - The Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab
Итого: сервер под юникс и win32, клиенты под юникс, win32 и java
(под msie вполне съедобная скорость).
--
Best regards, -- Boris.
Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should
be hard to understand.
--- Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "London" * Origin: Linux inside (2:5020/510@fidonet)
