ssh is great. But sometimes I just need a desktop. The remote desktop functionality offered by Ubuntu is kind of limited. For example, I just don’t know how I can enable remote desktop easily in the first place if one is not in front of the host already. Moreover, Ubuntu’s remote desktop is limited to LAN. I would love to do something similar to the Linux version of teamviewer.
It turns out that free remote desktop over the Internet is already out there for Linux/Ubuntu users! Better still, it is a piece of cake to install.