How many VNC forks out there?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Fernando Cassia wrote:

> I remember a decade ago learning about "Virtual Network Computer" a
> project back then of a crazy lab financed by Oracle and Olivetti, of
> all firms.
>
> VNC was nice.
>
> Then came the forks, the first I remember was TightVNC, backwards
> compatible but with better compression.
> Then I heard of UltraVNC, same as VNC but with a win32 driver to speed
> up video transmission / detection of screen changes.
>
> Then... I lost track. Is there an authoritative list somewhere on the
> net about all the forks of VNC??
>
> I remember a few weeks ago someone on this list mentioned yet another
> VNC fork, supposedly included in Fedora 11.
> I'm typing this right now from a Windows system and I'm far from my F11 box.
>
> So, what is that VNC named?

  that would be tigervnc.

rday
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