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Thin-Client Revisited

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Now, thanks to a partnership between Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and IBM, there’s a way to roll out corporate Linux desktops almost as fast as you can plug them into the network.

This story excites me.  Not for the “... drive significant savings compared with Microsoft-desktop software by amplifying ...” angle, but because hopefully it will mean that more application developers will see it as important that their applications are made available early, and run well, on Linux.

I hope it encourages hardware manufacturers to release drivers that just work. Applications are increasingly moving to the Web anyway so are not that much of an issue (for me). Hardware compatibility is.

Posted by Anne van Kesteren at

I don’t know anything about VERDE, but if it does virtualization as I understand it, it wouldn’t need drivers; instead it would rely on the underlying operating system to provide physical access.  Based on the documentation I have seen, this product appears to be a built on top of KVM and VNC.  I may be wrong, but I interpret that as meaning that the image runs in the cloud, displays on your machine, and can access your local devices remotely.

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