[ale] Remote Desktop for Everything?

[Jim Kinney]

Not yet. It's on my list of tech to tinker with.
Using cloudmin now for web admin of kvm machine. Same author as webmin.
Pretty good. Designed for virtual hosting providers .
On Oct 23, 2012 7:10 PM, "Pablo Ordonez" <pablo.f.ordonez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have anyone tried http://owncloud.org?  I haven't, but it looks
> promising.
>
> Pablo
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah. But if the cloud was my own and the tablet was truly mine (i.e.
>> rooted and reinstalled with my choice of binaries), I could see how
>> this could be useful. Puts the backup needs in one space.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM, David Tomaschik
>> <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
>> > So, being the security-conscious (paranoid) guy I am, I would not
>> > trust most cloud providers with all my data.  Plus, the OS on tablets
>> > is too restrictive unless you root and do CM or something.
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Vernard Martin <vernard at venger.net>
>> wrote:
>> >> On 10/23/2012 02:06 PM, JD wrote:
>> >>> Has anyone else attempted this?
>> >>> * Setup a Linux desktop "in the cloud"
>> >>> * Remote desktop into the cloud-desktop, as needed
>> >>> * Use ssh whenever possible
>> >>> * Use a tablet as your primary interface
>> >>>
>> >>> Here's a story
>> http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later
>> >>> about a guy doing just that for almost all his desktop needs.
>> Interesting read
>> >>> for the Linux crowd.
>> >>>
>> >> I do this right now for a few of my clients at work. We have Linux
>> >> servers on Amazon EC2 and they use NoMachine Client so that we can
>> >> connect and disconnect to the server and leave the desktop intact.
>> Works
>> >> pretty well except for when they need to move terabytes of data into
>> and
>> >> out of the server....
>> >>
>> >> Several of them found that the tablets were a bit restrictive for the
>> >> work they were doing due to low resolution size. Most of them use 15"
>> >> Macbook Pros instead.
>> >>
>> >>
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