TridiaVNC vs TightVNC?

[Jon Reynolds]

Warren excellent timing with the VNC, I had just began an initial trial phase 
of mixed OS administration using the original VNC. I had found that VNC over 
802.11 was horrible and not at all usable. After reading your post I am going 
to install TridiaVNC tomorrow and try it. Is there any other open source 
projects like VNC, that have been tried and have gotten a good grade from 
users?

Jon

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 04:01 pm, you wrote:
> 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
>
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