From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 31 7:10:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FD737B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id KAA08167; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:10:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailexnet.scana.com(161.156.248.69) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma008026; Tue, 31 Oct 00 10:09:33 -0500 Received: by mailexnet.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:09:33 -0500 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'ML Duke'" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Newbie packages Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:09:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org vnc is remote control software, like PC Anywhere, except open source. Very impressive, lets you control win2000, win98, X, Mac, even Palm! I was stunned when I first heard about such powerful software. I now have my FreeBSD server (without a monitor) in the garage and can still run X software from any computer running win2000 and win98 in my house, without an X server. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ ...Michael... > -----Original Message----- > From: ML Duke [mailto:mlduke@concentric.net] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 4:08 PM > To: SILVER, MICHAEL A > Cc: 'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'; 'Keith Davey'; 'David Johnson' > Subject: RE: Newbie packages > > > > and what is worthwhile. I am still amazed that I never > knew of the vnc > > port! > > This is a good example, and I bet I'm not alone: > What's vnc? > > I know, I can do a locate and read the description, > but it was some time down the road before I knew that. > > ML Duke > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message