12 Feb
2012
12 Feb
'12
2:06 p.m.
On Sunday 12 February 2012 04:58:58 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
Just to jump in here, there is one use case for a
lightweight DE that
doesn't involve obsolete hardware: multiuser mainframe-type systems. When
you have 50 users on one central server, each with a session that is being
accessed via a remote desktop protocol such as VNC or even the X
protocols, slight reductions in the overhead of each session make a big
difference overall.
Just something to think about in these odd times, when the personal
computer is being "replaced" with a variant of the old central mainframe
model....
Tim
Are you talking about cloud computing?
I've been wandering how that would actually work. I mean, if we all get rid of our
boot devices and use "the cloud" to boot our computers and run our apps, how
would we configure our computers to know what server(s) to boot from? How would TDE tie
into that (as in, how will it work being loaded from "the cloud", and how would
the TDE desktop environment change as a whole)? I know that's thinking way far in
advance as far as TDE goes, but I'm just curious ;-)
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Kris Gamrat
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