web based Ubuntu and Kubuntu. How does it sound?

[Eric Dunbar]

On 12/28/05, sahutoglu sonmez <sahutsonmez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Hello Ubuntu users,
> I am not sure it this is a good idea. But just to see what other people
> think about it. Here it is. I just check the website
> http://www.workspot.com/
> You can use linux in your browser. I really liked it. It would be nice if I
> could use Ubuntu and Kubuntu like that. it would be better if it is the
> latest development release. That is Dapperta this point. That way we can
> follow the development and get to use it anywhere we want. And it will be
> easier for people to give it a try.
> On the other hand I don't know what that means financially for canonical.
> What do you think?
>
> Happy new year.

Given that there have been a few negative posts on this project I
figured I should post a few of the comments from their website (FYI I
didn't get it to work... it doesn't seem to be able to connect ;-).

Summary: runs Mandrake, is known not to work for everyone
(firewall/NAT issues?), site/demo runs on five year old servers,
servers are having "issues"

PS Have no affiliation with this project/never heard of it before
today... found the comments in this thread a little too knee-jerk for
my taste.

Eric.

>From the demo page...

Welcome to Workspot's Linux & VNC demo. When you use the workspot
desktop, this is the mechanism that displays the Linux desktop. So if
this demo works for you, through your forewall, the workspot service
will work for you. Currently, this demo runs Mandrake's Linux distro
with the Gnome V2 desktop.

This demo will automatically expire after 10 minutes. If you finish
using the demo before that time, please click the 'Disconnect' button
below. Thank you!

>From the main page...
Goal:
provide faster & more reliable servers for this demo (ours are 5 years
old, and fail often).

Please note: we are not taking more subscribers, because we are
experiencing equipment failures at a high rate. If you are in the
position to donate rackspace, or new servers, please contact us.