Linux alternative to MS Netmeeting

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Tue Jan 9 09:37:44 EST 2007


On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:31:23AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> jboland at citistreetonline.com wrote:
> > what about vnc?
> Well, he asked about something that wouldn't require a server to "host" the
> meeting, but it's not clear why that's undesirable, or what exactly he means
> by that.  Without any more clarification on those two points, strictly
> speaking VNC /does/ require a persistent "server" session, so it is presumably
> unsuitable for him.

It doesn't require a third machine to act as an intermediary,
though. The "server" is merely the machine which is making a
desktop available, and the "clients" are all the machines which 
are requesting a view of that.

-dsr-

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