TigerVNC
High-performance, platform-neutral VNC implementation
TigerVNC is a high-performance, open-source implementation of VNC for remote desktop access. It offers server and client components for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Key features
- High-performance VNC
- Cross-platform server and client
- TLS encryption
- Per-user virtual desktops
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-2.0 license
- Mature project with 7.4k GitHub stars
- Written in C++
- Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM
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