Thus you can have your Windows box off in a corner, either with a dinky cheapo monitor, or even headless, and still access your favorite Windows apps when needed. I've found that with my LAN 100mb Ethernet, I can VNC to my Windows box, run Word on a Samba-available file on my Linux box, and there's plenty of bandwidth to spare. With VMware, after leaving Windows for good you'd need to either accept VMware's resource tax, or remove VMware from the box. From there you can navigate to obtain VNC source for various platforms, and Windows binaries. Many Linux distros come with the vnc server and vncviewer already installed.
Mandrake certainly does.
This is a good thing, because VNC is difficult to compile from source. Installing VNC Installing VNC on the Linux box is beyond the scope of this article. Hopefully your distro already comes with VNC installed. If not, my experience is that you're better off with an RPM than trying to compile it. Of course, your mileage will vary.