I was (still am) in #haiku, over at Freenode, a few minutes ago, and François Revol (aka mmu_man) asked if anyone had vncviewer. After checking what was installed on Ubuntu, I replied and after a couple of attempts at connecting, I finally managed to do it. I was connected to a Haiku installation, remotely, using VNC.

François had a good idea, to use this as a Haiku web demo, or 2, or 3. Not only would it be useful for anyone wanting to try Haiku out and not having to download the image, but also for those demoing Haiku around the world. What do you guys and gals think? Check out the screenshot.

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QEMU... Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-11-16 07:45:07 It's using QEmu's builtin vnc server.  Some problems with mouse and keyboard still, keyboard needs a keymap setting.  qemu supposedly can emulate a tablet, but it doesn't seem to work as absolute device.  Working on sound support

Written by \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it '>maniac on 2007-11-16 10:01:08 is it vnc server in haiku or qemu's vnc?

Nice Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-11-16 20:52:34 Great news, but in that screenshot the fonts on Haiku looks a bit off... any ideas?

Fonts... Written by mmu_man on 2007-11-17 01:58:29 It's due to the limited number of colors used by the VNC client.

Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-11-17 02:32:44 I think, you need check the color depth settings in the VNC. Set it to 32bit, and try

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CTO Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2008-01-27 02:40:30 It would be great to have a solid TCP/IP stack and VNC Server that is RFB compliant and modern with 3.7 or even 3.8 support. This would allow me to regression and test automate the new releases very rapidly.

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