Why realVNC is better. 1, The realVNC can be started by telnet. Yes, vino can also do this if you telnet from linux or solaris, but if you telnet from windows, you can not start vino. 2, When vino run, you can not find a tray icon, user will be confused how to stop it.(We can also make this feature for vino, we are evaluating this feature.) 3, The most important, vino uses VNC protocol, this protocol is come from VNC, and there are lot of source code in vino are come from VNC. So, since we are using VNC protocol, why not we just use vnc-server?
BTW, I also have come comments embedded in your words. Hope you can take a loot, and give me a hand. -:) Regards. -Steven Erwann Chenede wrote: > 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. Yes, I think the owner left Sun. Vino is quite inactive in gnome community. > 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. > This is a great feature. realVNC can not support this feature. Thanks for your information. > 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). Erwann, Can you give me more clear info about this? I hope to work on this issue. After using vino, I am thinking about use ssh for vino(Still not scucceed). Do you mean make vino use PAM or just use the authentication libs? do you mind to give me more informations about the authentication libs? It will be very helpful for us. Thanks. -Steven > > HTH, > > Erwann > > PS: more details about vino : > http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop.html >
