| DRC | 1a18407 | 2011-06-24 06:55:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to |
| 2 | view and interact with a virtual desktop environment that is running on another |
| 3 | computer on the network. Using VNC, you can run graphical applications on a |
| 4 | remote machine and send only the display from these applications to your local |
| 5 | machine. VNC is platform-independent and supports a wide variety of operating |
| 6 | systems and architectures as both servers and clients. This package contains a |
| 7 | client which will allow you to connect to a VNC server. |
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| 9 | TigerVNC is a high-speed version of VNC based on the RealVNC 4 and X.org code |
| 10 | bases. TigerVNC started as a next-generation development effort for TightVNC |
| 11 | on Unix and Linux platforms, but it split from its parent project in early 2009 |
| 12 | so that TightVNC could focus on Windows platforms. TigerVNC supports a variant |
| 13 | of Tight encoding that is greatly accelerated by the use of the libjpeg-turbo |
| 14 | JPEG codec. TigerVNC has replaced RealVNC in the Fedora Project, and there are |
| 15 | long-term plans for it to replace TurboVNC in the VirtualGL Project as well. |