Monday, June 28, 2004

VNC: Coolest . . . Software . . . Ever -- 3:07 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Just when I thought I pretty much had been as amazed by the open-source community as I was going to be (what with KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and Linux itself), J.t.Qbe turned me on to some software that blew me away. That software? RealVNC. It allows any Win32, Mac, or *nix computer running their server to be controlled by another Win32, Mac, or *nix computer using their viewer. Setup was ridiculously easy. I tried the server on my kids' Win98 box and could completely control it from my Slack 10 box over the network. Far too cool, and it's free in every sense of the word. Check it out.

The Master comments: I've used TightVNC extensively myself, and it is another great open-source version of the VNC protocol and client. It's also got some sweet server extensions. Either one of these is really good stuff when you need remote control.

J.t.Qbe comments: I like some of TightVNC's features, but for some reason it's slow as molasses over my LAN. I'll have to give it some more time.

This afternoon I had to go over to my sister's to help her with her broadband router setup. I couldn't resist: I set up some port forwarding on my own router and then used VNC from her house to my Linux box at home. It was a bit laggy, but still quite workable--and far better than it was years ago when I used it over a 28K dialup line.

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