On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote: >> >> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all! >> >> >> >> > Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on >> >> > your >> >> > purpose. >> >> >> >> My purpose, at this early stage, is simplicity itself: I have a >> >> "virtual private server" up and running -- root access and all that -- >> >> and I want to have some sort of X desktop available on it that I can >> >> remotely log in to. What do you suggest? At present I feel I am close >> >> to getting the login to work, but of course there is nothing >> >> resembling an X session there (i.le window manager, Gnome or KDE). >> > >> > x11vnc is for creating a VNC instance to an existing X server. You just >> > want a >> > VNC server: look into tightvncserver. >> >> Or NX from www.nomachine.com, which is free for personal use and is >> commercial grade software with excellent printing, USB, and shared >> session capability with quite efficient CPU and network use on both >> ends. It's a big step up from VNC. > > Your post is not helpful in reply to what I have said. You basically say > 'don't > listen to this guy -- come try this instead!'. I don't appreciate it. > Furthermore NX has gone closed-source and is not easier to configure or > understand. VNC is simple and is what Eric previously told us he was using. > It's right there in the quoted text.
This is confusing. I was trying to help the original poster, Gregory, by pointing out what is, compared side-by-side, an excellent solution. I wasn't trying to insult you, and I certainly did not ignore your suggestions, but rather I tried to help him, as the original poster. I am sorry if that bothers you, although in a support list, I'm not sure how to offer a relevant suggestion without possibly insulting someone so sensitive about alternative approaches. As near as I could tell at the time, I personally *wrote* the first SunOS port of VNC myself, so I've some experience with it. Would it help to actually compare them side by side and see why I think it's better? The change from open source is a reasonable concern, and I've spoken with NoMachine about this as a customer. I'm actually hoping they'll change their minds about that before the next release gets out of alpha testing. But it's really a very good tool for remote X servers. I'd be happy to compare it to VNC based tools, side by side. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=Y1OqfmCUGnSBxOkPUmQyTVHqW=q...@mail.gmail.com
