

Unlike TurboVNC, TigerVNC is not focused on 3D and video applications, so its developers were not generally very concerned with making such applications performant by default.

Throughout 20, The VirtualGL Project contributed many hours of labor (probably half of them pro bono) to the development of TigerVNC, in hopes of turning TigerVNC into "TurboVNC 2.0." Ultimately, however, it became apparent that, both from a technological and a political point of view, making TigerVNC into a TurboVNC work-alike was going to be like fitting a square peg into a round hole. The TigerVNC Project was founded by some of the former TightVNC developers, Red Hat, and The VirtualGL Project in early 2009, with the goal of providing a high-performance VNC solution based on the RealVNC 4 and X.org code bases.
