On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:21 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: > On 02/22/2011 05:59 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 17:11 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > >> On 02/22/2011 04:42 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, all. I'd imagine none of us have the time to investigate this > >>> but I just took a quick look at EyeOS (http://www.eyeos.org). It is an > >>> open source cloud desktop solution. Version 2 was very slow and buggy > >>> but version 1 was amazingly fast. > >>> > >>> > >> <snip> > >> > >> I don't remember if it was eyeos, but we looked at some of these "web > >> desktop integration" solutions a while back. > >> > >> It's not the same experience as having a "real" desktop. > >> > >> Yes, they've managed to write some office-style apps and email clients > >> and other things. > >> > >> But that does not truly duplicate a bona-fide native desktop. > >> > >> Many of the clients we pursue have very industry-specific software they > >> need to run. > >> It needs to run the same whether we put it on their machines or ours in > >> the cloud. > >> > >> With good remote access there's no retraining of users because they are > >> using the same software they've been using for years. Just accessing it > >> remotely. > >> > >> > >> In the end, we opted to not go the WDI approach and instead looked for > >> good remote access technologies such as x2go that gives us the > >> flexibility to offer nearly any type of local/remote/cloud solution for > >> the client. > >> > > <snip> > > That is exactly why we chose X2Go instead. However, what caught my eye > > (no pun intended) was how responsive the video and sound were - > > significantly better than what we are doing in X2Go. So, in the > > openness of open source, I wonder what we can learn from what they have > > done to improve X2Go - John > > > > > > Since most of these WDI offerings are browser-based my guess is that > they are passing a link down to the browser and accessing the video and > sound through an embedded media player directly rather than playing the > media on the server and then passing the output through to the client. > > Just a guess. <snip> That is definitely the case in one scenario. When starting a YouTube video, I was asked it I wanted to allow a redirect and, sure enough, it opened up as a local browsing session on my physical computer. However, if I did not allow redirection (answered no), the video opened in the EyeOS browser and played remarkably well. I'm assuming (ignorantly) that that was not using a local media player - John
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