[LUNI] Best package for a remote access GUI client

[Craig Van Tassle]

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:47:36 -0600
"Jay Strauss" <me at heyjay.com> wrote:

> > VCN  (tightvnc, realvnc, x11vnc take your pic).  runs a desktop
> > that you can log into.  listens for connection on 5900 and does ++
> > for each additional session.  (5901, 5902...)
> >       cons:  horrible security, but you can do ssh tunneling and
> > that fixes that.   (ssh -L 5900:ip:5900 user at host)
> >      windows:  realvnc and tightvnc both have clients for it.  use
> > putty to setup a tunnel for ssh.
> 
> As a regular user of VNC (I'm using UltraVNC) over Putty (ssh), to a
> Linux box across the net,  it too sucks performancewise, and I have
> pretty good network connections (comcast at 6Mb on the VNC side, and
> 2+Mb DSL on the Linux side).
> 
> I concur, M$ has it all over VNC.
> 
> I have no experience on Freenx, but will read up.
> 
> Jay


You may want to try looking at the linux terminal server project.

http://www.ltsp.org/

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