Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 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.

Xvnc (from the RealVNC 4.1.2 sources using the Solaris Xorg 1.3 server
sources for the X server sources) is included in Nevada build 75 and
later, and will also be in Solaris 10 Update 5.   Using our modified
Xorg server sources means it includes support for Solaris-specific
extensions like Trusted Extensions [1] & the IA process priority control
class.

The vncviewer client from RealVNC 4.1.2 came a build later in nv_76,
and will also be in S10U5.

The VNC loadable module for the Xorg server is not included though,
since my head hurt just thinking about trying to explain to the lawyers
the implications of having an Xorg server binary loading both the
GPL-licensed VNC module and the utterly closed source nvidia driver
module at the same time.

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/gfaden/entry/using_xvnc_for_remote_mls

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     -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
      Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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