VNC, “Virtual Network Computing”, allows you to remotely access another computer’s graphical user interface. For most people, this is better than ssh, which is only a terminal (albeit sometimes a colorful one). I’m going to assume that everybody reading this has some Linux/unix experience, and knows how to use ssh.
The first step to using VNC is to ensure that there is something to view – you need to set up a desktop environment. Good candidates are xfce, gnome, and kde (I use gnome). If you have a slow computer with rendering problems, these might not work well (all of them can be kind of hard for a slow computer), so you might look into TWM. Read the rest of this entry »
