[desktop-discuss] Connect to OSX Desktop from Indiana / OpenSolaris

[James Cornell]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, James Cornell wrote:
>> perform better.  Anyone interested in the better of interoperability 
>> needs to spam Apple with feature requests specifically asking them to 
>> conform to the latest VNC protocol specification.  Without customer 
>> demand, and I mean a lot of it, Apple buckles up and gets pushy and 
>> deaf.  Perhaps since Chicken of the VNC is open-source, someone could 
>> figure out what specific changes they made to make it interoperable 
>> with Apple's implementation.
>
> It would not surprise me if Apple's VNC server is based on Chicken of 
> the VNC source code.  That would explain why it is interoperable. Even 
> though VNC protocol is not all that difficult to independently 
> implement (I have done it), the ready availability of GPL code means 
> that hardly anyone has taken that approach.  It would be useful to 
> learn how to obtain the GPL bits from OS-X and see if VNC code is 
> included.
>
> Regardless, as I mentioned before, once you get past the initial login 
> problem, Apple's VNC (Leopard version) manages to send one full screen 
> before the VNC server crashes.  This indicates that there are other 
> implementation problems in this server.
>
> It would be nice if Solaris provided VNC as a standard item (including 
> support in the X11 server) and it would be nice if everyone could 
> agree to interoperate.  The latter appears to be the hard part.
>
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
> bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, 
> http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
>
Well... xVM has brought VNC server to OpenSolaris, so it's a reality.  
OpenSolaris doesn't bundle a VNC client afaik though.

James