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Kellster on March 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

Question: why would you use this instead of Back to My Mac on OSX? Isn't that all the same?

dmitshur on March 8, 2013 [–]

VNC servers can run on Linux, Windows, OS X. This is more similar to running VNC client as a native binary for your OS, except this lets you do it in Chrome.

The biggest benefit I can tell is if you can run this on Chrome OS now. That, and pushing the technology forward.

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