On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, William Hooper wrote: > > If No, what is the advance of Xvnc in manners of size? > > Size isn't the point. Being able to have a persistent remote desktop is > the point
There are several major advantages of VNC: (1) The state is stored on the host machine. When you reconnect from wherever you happen to be, your session is exactly as it was when you last saw it. If you lose your connection, or your client machine goes down, your session is completely intact. It doesn't work that way with X. (2) It's faster than X and can even be used over a modem connection. (3) Instead of running an X server on the client machine, which can be expensive, you just run vncviewer. Vncviewer is a tiny program (about 170 kilobytes on MS-Windows last time I checked) that is available for any operating system you can name. (4) VNC servers can also run under all sorts of operating systems. I think it's completely amazing and about the most useful thing I do with my computer. I run Xvnc on my Sun computer in my office. From the VNC session, I connect by ssh to several other unix machines (each ssh session in its own xterm). When I need to run something on the other unix machines that uses X, any windows or graphics pop up in VNC. If I go home, or to St. Louis, or to NY City, I can connect from there to VNC and everything is still there. Mike -- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Epidemiology University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/ _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
