On 02/22/2011 05:59 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 17:11 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
On 02/22/2011 04:42 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. I'd imagine none of us have the time to investigate this but I just took a quick look at EyeOS (http://www.eyeos.org). It is an open source cloud desktop solution. Version 2 was very slow and buggy but version 1 was amazingly fast.
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I don't remember if it was eyeos, but we looked at some of these "web desktop integration" solutions a while back.
It's not the same experience as having a "real" desktop.
Yes, they've managed to write some office-style apps and email clients and other things.
But that does not truly duplicate a bona-fide native desktop.
Many of the clients we pursue have very industry-specific software they need to run. It needs to run the same whether we put it on their machines or ours in the cloud.
With good remote access there's no retraining of users because they are using the same software they've been using for years. Just accessing it remotely.
In the end, we opted to not go the WDI approach and instead looked for good remote access technologies such as x2go that gives us the flexibility to offer nearly any type of local/remote/cloud solution for the client.
<snip> That is exactly why we chose X2Go instead. However, what caught my eye (no pun intended) was how responsive the video and sound were - significantly better than what we are doing in X2Go. So, in the openness of open source, I wonder what we can learn from what they have done to improve X2Go - John
Since most of these WDI offerings are browser-based my guess is that they are passing a link down to the browser and accessing the video and sound through an embedded media player directly rather than playing the media on the server and then passing the output through to the client.
Just a guess. <snip> That is definitely the case in one scenario. When starting a YouTube video, I was asked it I wanted to allow a redirect and, sure enough, it opened up as a local browsing session on my physical computer. However, if I did not allow redirection (answered no), the video opened in the EyeOS browser and played remarkably well. I'm assuming (ignorantly)
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:21 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: that that was not using a local media player - John