Finally TeamViewer 7 release for GNU / Linux is
available
After a long time of inavailability,
finally TeamViewer 7 for
GNU / Linux is out!
Here is the short
TeamViewer 7 Linux release note :
In our TeamViewer download area you will now find TeamViewer 7
for Linux.
The final version includes a selection of new features for Linux,
e. g. an integrated screenshot feature and the possibility of
saving individual connection settings per computer.
You can now establish cross platform connections with other
computers running version 7 and hold online meetings and
presentations with up to 25 participants.
We wish you best continued success with TeamViewer!
Well, guys it was about time, even later than that... Until now
I've so many times experienced troubles with Windows machines which
I had to administrate remotely and they only had a TeamViewer 7
installed (a real, real pain in the ass).
The issue comes cause
TeamViewer 6 is incompatible with
7 and just until very recently only TV 6 for Linux was
available, so trying to access a 7 install directly from Linux was
impossible.
Hence to access
TeamViewer 7 Windows install, I had to use
either a fresh Windows copy with TeamViewer 7 installed or a
Virtual Machine like (Qemu, VirtualBox) with Windows version
installed in it.
Often back then, when I had to fix remotely a Windows machine
behind a firewall, I had to instruct the machine owners to replace
the TeamViewer 7 with TeamViewer 6 in order to be able to easily
access the remote host from my Debian Linux.
I still remember, it was quite a stuggle to find a link to a
Windows .exe install file for TeamViewer 6.
Now thanksfully, TeamViewer guys are starting to make it easier for
the user who would for some reason want to stick to older
TV
version.
I've noticed on TeamViewer's website there is already a new
TeamViewer download page offering for download all the
old teamviewer version - 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
One example, where old teamviewer release is useful is if you want
to run teamviewer on older hardware or old OS (MS Windows 98 or old
Linux distro).
I've made a mirror of
teamviewer 6 for Debian / Ubuntu amd 32
and 64 bit versions along with all the OS available TeamViewer
version 6 and 7, for the sake of preserving it if one day link to
old versions of Teamviewer disappear from their website.
Here are the
TeamViewer mirrored files:
Below you see a screenshot of teamviewer 7 running on my Debian
Squeeze :)
It is great teamviewer produced a Linux working application,
however if you run it you realize just like the previous releases
TeamViewer is not natively supposed (compiled) to run on GNU /
Linux OS but uses
wine (windows emulator) to launch
through...
Instead of porting the application to be natively for the Linux
distros once again with this new release, teamviewer developers
just "hacked" it to run on top of windows emulation. Though this is
working its performance, is probably a bit degraded and it depends
on having install on the Linux host a bunch of useless packages
which
wine depends on.
Besides that even if it "works" on Linux , TeamViewer has still
non-free software essense. I still use it because
unfortunately, I don't know of a better remote access program
capable to
connect to servers behind NAT /
machines
located behind a tight firewalled routers.
If only (I knew of?) a TeamViewer
free software / open source
equivalent ...
I will be glad to hear if someone know a
(free software / open
source) TeamViewer like
program able to access remote hosts
with no a real (public inet) IP address? P.S.: By similar
TV program I don't mean
VNC, UltraVNC and this kind
of other VNC derivative programs but mean close TeamViewer
alternative.