From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 14 3:43:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5561437B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A200643EBE for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (ce392a721c69ebf894d924fcee4b2208@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9EAbgUn007084; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:37:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Doug Young Cc: ML Duke , "SILVER, MICHAEL A" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, "'Keith Davey'" , "'David Johnson'" Subject: Re: Newbie packages In-Reply-To: <089901c042c9$d01c7700$837e03cb@dougy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Doug Young wrote: > > FWIW, I'd like to see the VNC application included as a standard package in > FreeBSD .... its infinitely > more usable than commercial Windows equivalents like pcAnywhere / Terminal > Services / etc & has the > advantage of being usable in virtually all operating systems. > vnc (vncserver and vncviewer) are not part of the base install, but they've been in the ports collection for a long time; I use them. And the documentation is quite good, from the web site. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com (with 4.6.2 installation CD) Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message