[mu ANNUNCE] VNC for muLinux!

From: Michele Andreoli (andreoli@pisoft.it)
Date: Fri May 14 1999 - 22:10:22 CEST


I'm very pleased to inform you that a preliminary addon (VNC addon)
supporting VNC for muLinux is incoming (VNC release number 3.3.1).

Some info for people which don't know about VNC.
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VNC stands for "Virtual Network Computing"
                
                URL: http://www.orl.co.uk/

(an Olivetti & Oracle project)

>From ORL web page:

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VNC consists of two types of component. A server, which generates a
display, and a viewer, which actually draws the display on your screen.
There are two important features of VNC:

 The server and the viewer may be on different machines and on different
architectures. We expect the most common use to be the display of a Unix
X desktop on a PC, for example. The protocol which connects the server
and viewer is simple, open, and platform- independent.
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Some more "rustic" explanations:

<rustic>

The VNC-server can surrogate the XF86 XWindow server. This means: no X11
floppy required. But VNCserver can start a normal X applications,
windows manager, etc. For this reason, I suppose X11 loaded in RAM,
otherwise we cannot run anything!

Startin the VNC-server on my muLinux machine, I was able to see
XWindow on my NT/Win98 PC, "a latere". A little problem: when you
open a xterm in this way, keyboard is mapped in a very insane way
for my taste (US standard, maybe?) [no solution allowed]

But, anyway, the MOUSE work :)

The originals startup script for VNC was in PERL: I rewrote them in ASH,
in a full *plain* rustic style. They work well:

                # vnc start
                # vnc stop
                # vnc host:display { start the client}

The server can connect simultaneusly to more remote client, using
display 0, 1, etc.

The VNC-viewer (the client) is a SVGALIB client. Translation: it can
run without a local running X. With this client, you can see (on a muLinux
console!) the full windows system of another PC, connected in a network
and running an VNC-server.
I tested that, using a VNC-server for WIN98 e for WinNT: I was been able
to open nice NT applications (closing them quickly :) ).

Now: all this stuff (SVGA libraries, Xvnc: the Linux server,
svncviewer: the Linux client) fill
only 800K/1722K and I plan to add some DOS/Windows client
(i.e. a .exe black box), if I can find a small one.

But i'm not sure about that: better solution is tell the user about
the URL where it can find the client which want.

What happens if you want to connect to VNC muLinux server without
a vnc client? Don't worry: you can see the muLinux XWindow in your
Netscape, pointing to 5800 tcp port!!

                http://mulinux-host:5800/

Oh, my friends, this is a very impressive thing: XWindows running in
a JAVA applet. Ohhh ...

</rustic>

What about the good new?
Michele (a male name)
 

-- 
Mi sarebbe piaciuto concludere con un'affermazione positiva, ma
non me ne vengono in mente. Vanno bene due negative?
						-- Woody Allen


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