LibVNCServer 0.9.9 Brings IPv6, TurboVNC Encoder

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LibVNCServer 0.9.9 Brings IPv6, TurboVNC Encoder

LibVNCServer, an important VNC library used by many free software projects and might even be used in Wayland, had a major release on Friday...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA5NzA

[uwgandalf]

We're starting from scratch and we can't do better than copying framebuffers through a fancy lossy encoder and send it over the wire. Will there ever be something that works as nice as (dare I say) Microsoft's RDP for remote GUI under Unix/Linux?
I mean we could do pretty efficient things if we'd send Qt and GTK+ representations instead of bitmaps.