[ale] Remote Desktop for Everything?

[Pablo Ordonez]

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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