TridiaVNC vs TightVNC?

[Warren Togami]

Tight encoding for VNC was more of a research project.  They don't seem to
be developing much anymore, but their work was incorporated into TridiaVNC,
a well tested version of VNC with an easy installation program, with
corporate support available.  Apparently, it took this useless packaging for
traditional IT people to not be afraid of using "Open Source" products.  It
is still available for free download, with full source code available under
the GNU GPL, so there really is no drawback to using Tridia.
Anyway, TridiaVNC servers and clients are VERY stable, with many more
encoding and compression options available.

As a slight warning though, if you run the VNC server included in Red Hat
7.1, it is based upon an earlier version of TightVNC, and it seems to crash
the TridiaVNC client when using some encodings.  I suggest upgrading Red
Hat's VNC packages to Rawhide or TridiaVNC if you want stability.

If I understood their announcements correctly, Tridia is now working on
integrated encryption for VNC.  This will bring it to about equal capability
as PC Anywhere or Timbuktu, traditional remote desktop products.  It will be
nice to no longer need SSH tunneling to use VNC securely over the Internet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Mings" <jeffm at lava.net>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:49 AM
Subject: [luau] TridiaVNC vs TightVNC?


>     Warren mentioned the use of TridiaVNC in his MPLUG resources report.
>  Some time ago I tried the original VNC but found its compression
> techniques to be rather poor, and its remote control performance
> inferior to pcAnywhere.  Since then, I found out about TightVNC at
> http://www.tightvnc.com/  and was about to try it as a way to administer
> mixed OSes from my Linux box.
>     I'd like to know if anyone compared TridiaVNC and TightVNC.  Both
> are apparently much improved over VNC as far as  performance/compression.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jeff Mings