Sabi ni Jerome noong 9/16/08 9:23 PM: > With applications slowly (but aggressively) moving > to the cloud and current online applications have become > indispensable, it doesn't matter what operating system you are using > (unless you talk about games) as long as you are running the right > software. The browser, along with technologies like Adobe Air and > Silverlight (surprisingly good and cross platform) are moving towards > that future.
I demonstrated this during my talk on Cloud Computing at Y4IT -- ran my presentation from GoogleDocs, and later "published it". URL's http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ah85j9hmrw2w_156c93bzbkv=d2v8pwj although it still needs some work. Fast forward to the last slide to get links to a number of Web desktops. DesktopTwo (http://www.desktoptwo.com) was particularly impressive because I ran OpenOffice.org from it. I wasn't using my own computer so I don't know what plugins were installed, but if I were to guess, it'd be Flash. And so the OS *would* matter some, because Flash on GNU/Linux is iffy, and on xBSD is only up to version 7 I believe. Still, it'd be interesting to see more Web desktops powered by Adobe AIR or Silverlight. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk If we choose being kind over being right, we will be right every time. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
