Todd Walton wrote: > There's talk about web-served applications being the coming thing. > For example, the hoopla about Google serving word processing > functionality. But what if you just ran a server with, say, KDE on > it, and let people connect via NX or something? You could have your > customers create an account, and then you give them a bit /home space > and voila: portable desktop! Now you have word processing, IM, email, > GIMP, xgalaga... you name it!
This is a very old idea. This is basically an xterm/thin client setup. I think this has potential in the future and that a lot of people would rather have someone else properly manage their PC such that it always works but right now nobody has nearly enough bandwidth. Try playing xgalaga on this thing over your DSL/cablemodem and let us know what you think. This plus the fact that Linux on the desktop really hasn't caught on yet (although it's still getting closer, just as it has been for the last 5 years) means it is still an idea ahead of its time. > I'm one of those people that can't stand to be wasting screen real > estate on anything but the application I'm using. I always maximize > windows, and oftentimes I configure the app to not have any panes that You always maximize windows? Then you don't have enough screen real estate! My desktop is 3200x1200 pixels and if I maximize a window it is a real waste, especially for readig eail which is only 80 chars wide. I would really like to see the aspect ratio of computer monitors change. > filesystem using SFTP. There are a couple of encrypted filesystems > using FUSE, and even a WikipediaFS that treats Wikipedia articles like > files. (Gotta try that one.) http://fuse.sourceforge.net Neato. Filesystems are getting to do more and more interesting things. Hopefully Linux will have something nice to compete with the new filesystem features Longshot or whatever MS is calling their perpetually impending OS. Or did they remove WinFS from it because there was no way it would be ready on time for the next OS release? I seem to recall something like that. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
