Re: [LUG] Linux Desktop on my Mac or PC

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On It's Saturday 05 October 2002 you dork 04:45, you wrote:
> I use VNC to access my Linux boxes from my Windows PC, works great. Just
> noticed another program called TightVNC which seems to have split off the
> original project. Has anyone tried this? Opinions?

Yup, I think it uses JPEG compression, which can be a bit lossy (although you 
can adjust the level of compression).  It came bundled with Mandrake, so it 
really was just a case of firing it up and using it!

> You should be able to set the Sun boxes up with no trouble if you plug a
> terminal (emulator?) into the serial port.

Yeah, and obviously you can then set up SSH or even an X server for more 
convenient network-based access.

Jon

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