vncserver and hoary

John Levin john at technolalia.org
Mon May 9 10:09:09 UTC 2005


On 9 May 2005, at 01:02, Matthew S-H wrote:

> Well, since you're helping me find a good client for my Mac to access 
> Ubuntu, maybe I can help you a bit in finding a good server to run on 
> the mac to access it from Ubuntu.
> I use OSXvnc.  It runs WONDERFULLY when I access it from Ubuntu.  Very 
> fast.
>
> As for VNCThing, you're right, I can't find it.  Hopefully it'll come 
> back, because I need a good viewer.
>
> Might you happen to still have the installer for VNCThing?  Or, if 
> not, could you just send me the app itself (this usually works on a 
> Mac)?
> If you could send either as an attachment, that'd be awesome.
>
>

Having used it for more than two minutes, I have to correct myself and 
say VNCviewer is the best client I've found for OS X (although it's 
buggy for Tiger, apparently). VNC is always going to tax the network, 
but VNCviewer is more efficient than VNCthing

>> http://homepage.mac.com/kedoin/VNC/VNCViewer/

John





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