Hi Steven,
Steven Zhang wrote:
>Folks,
>Currently, We are working on the vino project. Vino is a remote desktop
>which is based on VNC protocols.The gap analysis said that vino is
>widely used on Linux.
>
>Here is our question:
>Since realVNC is also a open source product(GNU license). And it can
>work on solaris too. Why we don't use realVNC? From the evaluation, I
>think that realVNS is better than vino.
>
>
Could you be more specific about why realVNC is better ?
Vino was developed by Sun specifically for the gnome desktop. It is
fully integrated directly into
gnome.
One of the main advantages is that with vino one doesn't have to start a
session within a vnc server.
Instead vino can be started after a user is already logout in. Making it
perfect for the "remote assistance"
use case.
So unless realVNC already provides gnome integration and this
possibility of dynamically hook in
an already running X session, I don't see why realVNC would be selected.
Vino wasn't integrated in JDS for solaris because vino wasn't using the
same authentication libs
as the one already provided in solaris (and due to lack of resources at
the time JDS for solaris
shipped).
HTH,
Erwann
PS: more details about vino :
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop.html
--
Erwann Ch?ned?,
Desktop Group, Sun Microsystems
[ I speak for myself, not for my employer ]
