Sinds 12 juni is er een nieuwe VNC server bijgekomen, deze maakt echter gebruik van de programmeertaal Perl. Er moet nog een hoop aan gebeuren maar de ontwikkelaar heeft al vast een ruwe proef versie uitgebracht zodat de basis goed getest kan worden. De volgende beschrijving wordt mee gegeven:
Why VNC?
Well, VNC is great. no doubt about it. I use it daily. Not only portable, but extermely thin client in nature, VNC allows me to remote control many differnet computers across the internet/intranet. Being free, and open-source, I immediately liked it better than other possible solutions.
Why perl?
Perl is powerfull, portable, and I like it. It allows my to accomplish complicated tasks far more easily than any other programming language.
Why perlVNC?
The Idea hit me when I saw the rfbcounter example. For quite a long time I've been looking for an easy way to implement a thin GUI client, which can remote-control programs across my intranet. It had to be portable, cross-platform, easily configured, powerfull enough to be useful, VERY thin client, and if possible, thin server too.
After seeing rfbcounter, I new i've hit the jackpot. all I needed was to learn the VNC protocol (open source is great...), and implement it in perl.
And So, here we are.