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Remote desktop to Mac from various platforms (Windows, Ubuntu)

The "server" (the host I'm trying to connect to) is Snow Leopard. The "client" is Ubuntu 10.04.

I want something like a remote desktop server running on OS X that I can connect to and control from the Linux machine.

Something cheap or free would be best. Something that always runs on the OS X machine so that I never have to attach a monitor or a keyboard.

I don't want to use VNC, because, well, VNC sucks over this network.

Any ideas?

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VNC is the answer, since that's what Mac OS X's built in screen sharing service is. If your network has bandwidth or latency or packet loss issues that keep VNC from working well, what makes you think another remote desktop protocol would do any better? Or do you know that your IT department is specifically filtering/proxying/bandwidh-limiting/imparing VNC in some way?

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VNC is slower than RDP. I don't know what rdp does differently, but it's much faster on this network. Using VNC to view a windows machine on the same network is much slower than using rdp on the same machine. – synic May 13 '10 at 19:47
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That's because RDP tries to send drawing primitives, while VNC can only send bitmaps. (e.g. "draw a box here" vs. "here's a picture of a box") For an OS X host though, VNC & SSH are the only things I'm aware of. – afrazier May 13 '10 at 20:01
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