Andrzej, Your vision is pretty much the same one I had. The challenge is this:
"Existing releng process and contribution process prevent anything from happening though. I would like to help to change that." How? On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > On 2013-05-10 02:19, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> There is little "commercial future" in the desktop for Linux >>> distributions as well yet almost all of them have a graphical desktop. >>> >> >> I would be entirely *unsurprised* if distro vendors like RedHat and >> Oracle simply *ditched* their desktop support at some point in the future >> -- its clear to me at least that folks aren't running those distros on the >> desktop. >> > > Well, Oracle does provide and promote SunRays, and while admittedly most > of their market targeting is about VDI and access to virtual > Windows desktops, there are many requests on the SRSS mailing list > about adding support for server-side Ubuntu as the SRSS terminal > server, because certain apps only exist for Linux and tunneling > of connections makes their graphics lag, and RHEL/OEL/Solaris > desktops are argued to be not so user-friendly (I have no opinion > on this, to me X11 is a means to display more characters on screen > than possible in a text mode). > > Not that Oracle seems to care to address that demand, at least > publicly - just recently they began supporting versions 6 of RHEL > and OEL as server-side Linuxes. But there is certain demand for > non-MS/Apple desktops, and one linked to commercial interest as > well. I am not sure if OI/illumos can ride that tide, though. > Maybe with some other terminal client technologies (ThinLinc, > Wyse, etc)?.. > > //Jim > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/oi-dev<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev> > -- Alasdair Lumsden http://www.everycity.co.uk EveryCity Managed Hosting Studio 18 Bluelion Place 237 Long Lane, London, SE1 4PU general: 020 7183 2800 support: 020 7183 2801 email: a...@everycity.co.uk Every City Limited Registered in England and Wales, No. 5689474 Registered Office: Roper Yard, Roper Road, Canterbury, CT2 7EX
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