On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:36:04AM -0500, Adam Tkac wrote: > Hi all, > > it was some concern why TightVNC feature has been renamed to TigerVNC > one minute before beta freeze. Let me try explain background. > > In Fedora 10 we have vnc based on RealVNC source but upstream doesn't > put any effort to accept patches which we have so I decided replace > RealVNC by TightVNC in F11. > > Current TightVNC "trunk", which was supposed to be our F11 vnc, uses > same codebase as RealVNC. TightVNC adds Tight extension and some other > useful features. I joined to TightVNC upstream about one year ago and > successfully ported all Fedora changes to upstream. > > Unfortunately TightVNC lead developer wasn't able to create any plan > for the next release of UN*X version. All UN*X developers asked him > what features will be in next version, when the next version will be > released etc. It was continual development without any milestones > which was unacceptable for some developers thus we created fork called > TigerVNC. > > TigerVNC is new project, it exists about two weeks. All active > TightVNC UN*X developers left TightVNC and joined TigerVNC. Also lead > developer of TurboVNC (VNC which is focussed on performance, 3D gaming > etc) joined us so I think this project will have better future than > TightVNC. You can read "official" statement from upstream - > https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=alpine.LFD.2.00.0902271116020.25749%40maggie.lkpg.cendio.se. > > Due reasons written above I decided to switch to TigerVNC ASAP because > I think it will be better than TightVNC. > > I hope I threw enough light on this topic. > Hmm.. maybe now it would be possible to also merge UltraVNC Windows authentication ("MS-Logon") support into TigerVNC client on *nix? That feature allows authentication using Windows/AD-domain username+password to UltraVNC server running on Windows.. There's a patch for some (old) Linux VNC version available, and it can be found from the vnc mailinglist archives: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-May/045424.html http://bofh.be/patches/vncviewer-mslogon.patch -- Pasi -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
