VNC (Virtual Network Computing)

Stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing .desktop. environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Many of us, for example, use a VNC Viewer running on a PC on our desks to display our Unix environments which are running on a large server in the machine room downstairs.