TightVNC feature has been renamed to TigerVNC

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:36:04AM -0500, Adam Tkac wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> it was some concern why TightVNC feature has been renamed to TigerVNC
> one minute before beta freeze. Let me try explain background.
> 
> In Fedora 10 we have vnc based on RealVNC source but upstream doesn't
> put any effort to accept patches which we have so I decided replace
> RealVNC by TightVNC in F11.
> 
> Current TightVNC "trunk", which was supposed to be our F11 vnc, uses
> same codebase as RealVNC. TightVNC adds Tight extension and some other
> useful features. I joined to TightVNC upstream about one year ago and
> successfully ported all Fedora changes to upstream.
> 
> Unfortunately TightVNC lead developer wasn't able to create any plan
> for the next release of UN*X version. All UN*X developers asked him
> what features will be in next version, when the next version will be
> released etc. It was continual development without any milestones
> which was unacceptable for some developers thus we created fork called
> TigerVNC.
> 
> TigerVNC is new project, it exists about two weeks. All active
> TightVNC UN*X developers left TightVNC and joined TigerVNC. Also lead
> developer of TurboVNC (VNC which is focussed on performance, 3D gaming
> etc) joined us so I think this project will have better future than
> TightVNC. You can read "official" statement from upstream -
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=alpine.LFD.2.00.0902271116020.25749%40maggie.lkpg.cendio.se.
> 
> Due reasons written above I decided to switch to TigerVNC ASAP because
> I think it will be better than TightVNC.
> 
> I hope I threw enough light on this topic.
> 

Hmm.. maybe now it would be possible to also merge UltraVNC Windows authentication
("MS-Logon") support into TigerVNC client on *nix? 

That feature allows authentication using Windows/AD-domain username+password
to UltraVNC server running on Windows.. 

There's a patch for some (old) Linux VNC version available, and it can be found from 
the vnc mailinglist archives: 

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-May/045424.html
http://bofh.be/patches/vncviewer-mslogon.patch

-- Pasi