On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:18:37PM -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > I'm interested to know what the reasons were for switching from TightVNC > to RealVNC. I know that earlier versions of RedHat/Fedora Linux used > TightVNC, but now RealVNC seems to have replaced it. The original VNC is X-based, that is to say you need an X tree to build it inside. In Fedora Core 3 we ship RealVNC built against xorg-x11-6.8.1. If a security problem is discovered in xorg-x11, and that problem affects the VNC modules built against it, it is a simple matter to apply the patch and rebuild the VNC package. The xorg-x11 project is actively maintained. The TightVNC project, on the other hand, is still based on XFree86 3.3.x (not even 4.x). As I understand it, there *are* security problems in that release, they remain unfixed, and will continue to remain unfixed. XFree86 3.3.x is not undergoing any maintenance. So it's a simple choice really. I spoke to the TightVNC maintainer a while ago asking when he would port to a newer X base, and he said it was on his to-do list -- but until that happens, we can't really ship such an old version of the X code that it builds against. Tim. */
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