About:
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing "desktop" environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Server performance was improved for graphics intensive applications (see the -maxrects option in the Xvnc manual page). A control mechanism that allows an optimisation of interactivity versus drawing performance to be made was added. A new -deferupdate time option was included to change the deferred update time on the fly.

Author:
RealVNC Ltd. <info |at| realvnc |dot| com> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.67/10.00 (19 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.realvnc.com/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.realvnc.com/dist/vnc-4.0-unixsrc.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.realvnc.com/v4/release-notes.html
RPM package:
http://www.realvnc.com/dist/vnc-4.0-1.i386.rpm

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX, POSIX :: Linux, Unix
[Topic]		System :: Networking, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.0	31-Aug-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)
UltraVNC	1.0.0 Release Candidate 18	20-Oct-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)
WinVNC	4.0 Beta 4	17-Nov-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)
XFree86 4.x	4.3.0.999	17-Sep-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.0	Major feature enhancements	31-Aug-2004 12:12
4.0 Beta 4	Major feature enhancements	09-Sep-2003 07:05
3.3.7	Major feature enhancements	27-Mar-2003 08:07
3.3.3R2	Minor feature enhancements	27-Feb-2001 23:20
3.3.3	N/A	20-Aug-1999 22:08
3.3.2 R3	N/A	15-Dec-1998 23:22
VNC 3.3.2 R2	N/A	24-Jul-1998 07:05

 Articles referencing this project

• vnc2swf
  by jeff covey , in Project Reviews
  Sat, Feb 5th 2005 00:00
  
• Red Hat: Updated VNC packages fix replay and cookie vulnerabilities
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Mar 3rd 2003 12:09
  
• The Case for Centralized Computing
  by Dan Feldman , in Editorials
  Sat, Dec 23rd 2000 23:59
  

 Comments

[»] darn it! wrong link.
by drew - May 30th 2000 18:22:52

here is the right one.

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[»] VNC isn't that vulnerable !
by linux - Oct 21st 2004 18:59:02

If you look at SecurityFocus.COM, you would notice that VNC isn't rank high at all. The highest ranking report on VNC is # 72, and is dated 1998 ! The report is at http://search.securityfocus.com/swsearch?query=vnc&sbm=%2F&submit=Search%21&metaname=alldoc&sort=swishlastmodified&reverse=on Find out about it yourself !

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[»] yes, but security vulnerability
by drew - May 30th 2000 18:19:31

click here for details on securityfocus.com

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[»] VNC is freedom!
by ledskof - Feb 16th 1999 15:11:31

As we all know, Linux is the very best working environment for anyone who chooses to use it. VNC gives us the freedom to work in a homogenous environment without having to dual-boot. It just plain works!

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