TigerVNC is an

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Virtual Network Computing VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the RFB protocol, Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) to remotely control another computer. It transmits the computer keyboard, keyboard and computer mouse, mouse in ...

(VNC) server and client software, started as a fork of

TightVNC TightVNC is a Free and open-source software, free and open-source remote desktop software server and client application for Linux and Windows. A server for macOS is available under a commercial software, commercial source code license only, with ...

in 2009. The client supports

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and

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. The server supports Linux. There is no server for macOS and as of release 1.11.0 the Windows server is no longer maintained.

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Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North ...

, Cendio AB, and

TurboVNC VirtualGL (VGL) is an open-source software, open-source software package that redirects the 3D rendering commands from Unix and Linux OpenGL applications to 3D accelerator hardware in a dedicated server and sends the rendered output to a (thin cl ...

maintainers started this fork because RealVNC had focused on their enterprise non-open VNC and no TightVNC update had appeared since 2006. The past few years however, Cendio AB who use it for their product ThinLinc is the main contributor to the project. TigerVNC is fully

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

, with development and discussion done via publicly accessible mailing lists and repositories. TigerVNC has a different feature set than TightVNC, despite its origins. For example, TigerVNC adds encryption for all supported operating systems and not just Linux. Conversely, TightVNC has features that TigerVNC doesn't have, such as file transfers. TigerVNC focuses on performance and on remote display functionality. TigerVNC became the default VNC implementation in Fedora shortly after its creation. A 2010 reviewer found the TigerVNC product "much faster than

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, but not quite as responsive as

Remmina Remmina is a free and open source remote desktop client for POSIX-based computer operating systems. It supports the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VNC, NX technology, NX, XDMCP, SPICE (protocol), SPICE, X2Go and Secure Shell, SSH protocols and us ...

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* * {{cite web , url= http://winswitch.org/ , title= Win Switch , quote= an applet for more easily starting, suspending and moving VNC sessions. Also Mac OS X binaries, as well as Linux distributions
TigerVNC Feature request
the Fedora request for switching from RealVNC to TigerVNC
TigerVNC Releases
- TigerVNC Release Highlights Cross-platform free software Free software programmed in C++ Free software programmed in C Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Linux remote administration software MacOS remote administration software Virtual Network Computing Windows remote administration software

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