Virtual Dave: Now for Windows, Ubuntu and Mac!
All good things come to an end… Fortunately, Virtual Dave isn’t one of them. I’ve recently made the decision to drop my own remote assistance software in favor of using a new open-source VNC launcher called Gitso. This launcher has a few benefits over the previous iterations of my older “Virtual Dave” software:
- Lightweight: It’s written in Python and loads very fast.
- Simple: Sometimes losing a couple “bells and whistles” is a good thing.
- Multiple platforms: Gitso works on Windows, Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X.
- Active Development Pipeline: A feature request I submitted was approved for the next version less than a half hour after I submitted it.
- Open-Source: Free as in freedom.
There are a lot of features in the coming versions of this software I have been looking for in a VNC tool for a long time. And who knows, I might learn a thing or two about programming in Python with this little tool.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010