TigerVNC
The VNC with teeth
TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients that have a focus on performance and remote display functionality. Originally this software was based on the (never released) VNC 4 branch of TightVNC. The motivation for the creating this project can be read in the project announcement.
You can download the 1.0.0 release of the product. Besides the source code, there are binaries for Xvnc (for Linux x86_32) and a Windows installer containing the WinVNC server and the Windows vncviewer client.
Voluntarily maintained packages for Debian and Ubuntu distributions are located here.
TigerVNC currently hosts a "community" version of the RFB protocol specification. This differs from RealVNC's original specification in that it tries to be a complete description of the RFB protocol, including all extensions.
You can view the current version of the specification directly in our repository (HTML version). This file is in the reStructuredText format, which can be converted to things like HTML and PDF.
If you want to make some additions to the protocol, or if you just have some questions, there is a mailing list called rfbproto where such matters are handled. You can also have a look in the archive.
The project has four mailing lists set up:
Moderated announcement list for things such as a new release.
Archive at GMANE | Mail Archive
Support and general discussion list for users of TigerVNC. Please use this list for bug reports.
Archive at GMANE | Mail Archive
Discussion list for TigerVNC developers. If you have a patch or some development ideas then please send them here.
Archive at GMANE | Mail Archive
Read-only list that receives notifications for each commit that is made into the main subversion repository.
Archive at GMANE | Mail Archive
There is also an IRC channel #tigervnc on Freenode. This channel is open to both users and developers. Please note that not all developers are present in this channel, so use the mailing lists if it is something critical.
Anyone is welcome to join in the project, professionals and hobbyists alike. The current primary participants are:
Red Hat, Inc.For use as the primary VNC client/server in Fedora. People
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Cendio ABTigerVNC is the graphical engine of their terminal server software ThinLinc. People
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VirtualGL ProjectTigerVNC provides the performance needed to use VirtualGL remotely and will replace their current VNC implementation, TurboVNC. People
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