VNC is dead.
How so?
There are a number software packages in Debian that implement VNC. To grab one random example, the last commit to their git repo was last month.
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months ago
VNC is dead. I’d try to talk them off that if it’s a requirement.
tal@lemmy.today 9 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months ago
VNC has long been abandoned by the engineering world. It’s inefficient, it has no transport security, and the implementations are very subjective.
tal@lemmy.today 9 months ago
The last time I used a commercial VPS, I’m pretty sure it used VNC to provide console access.
The VNC software I linked to above appears to support TLS.
I’m not sure what you mean by subjective.
I haven’t looked at the VNC protocol for a while, but I don’t think that it imposes any terrible inefficiencies. A couple of decades back, I needed to implement something quick-and-dirty similar to VNC, and went with rendering window contents and handling dragging of windows locally, which I don’t believe that VNC can do (or didn’t then) but IIRC VNC has a tile cache, which, if intelligently used, should avoid most traffic. Dunno if it can deal well with efficiently rendering visual effects.
drspod@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
You should probably let RealVNC know, because they don’t seem to have got your memo.