Re: Leopard: What would make it a failure -- for you?

In article <1151771919.643894.76910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
johnkeates@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

jfaughnan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
There are lots of Leopard wish lists. This is the inverse. What missing
feature would so disappoint you that you'd consider Leapord a personal
failure?

For me, this is easy.

If Leopard does not bundle the equivalent of at least Microsoft remote
desktop with Leopard, irregardless of whatever else Leopard does, I
will consider it a failure -- for me. Sure I'll buy it. Sure I'll find
good things in it, but I'll still grade it 'N' for 'needs improvement'.

For those who don't know it, I'll describe the functionality of Remote
desktop. The server has been bundled with XP Pro for years. The freely
distributed client allows any old Windows or Mac to remote control an
XP Pro desktop, including machines running Win2K, OS X, and even, I
think, Win98. System responsiveness is good for controlling many
applications, but it's too slow for much typing. It's plenty adequate
for doing remote control of iTunes, remote databases, troubleshooting,
etc. It only supports a single user on the remote machine.

I want this for Leopard. I want an XP machine or a OS X machine to
remote control a Leopard desktop, over a local LAN or a VPN connection.
I'd love to have something better than Microsoft Remote Desktop -- like
multi-session support on the server, but anything that's well supported
would do the trick.

PS. Yeah, I know about the aftermarket products, apple remote desktop,
the current hacks, the half-implemented stuff in 10.3. I want something
robust and well supported and universal.

meta: jfaughnan, jgfaughnan, remote desktop, remote control, OS X,
Leopard, 10.5, wish list

Eh.. how about VNC? It's so universal, there are even clients for Nokia
Series 60 phones, clients for Newton (That old apple pda) and many
more strange devices may even have never heard of. It will run on
everything as long as it will run linux. So I think there is your
super-universal-multisession-GUI-remote-control.

I'm not the OP but I'll chime in. VNC is pretty universal but it's still
incredibly buggy and there is a lot of latency and screen redraw
problems. I'm rather amazed that development seems to have ground to a
halt on VNC ... there is still a lot of work to do to make it a quality
piece of software.

I've used VNC, PCanywhere, and Windows Remote Desktop extensively.
Remote Desktop is the best - it's pretty easy to forget that you are
connected to a remote computer.
.

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