ncomputing and Ubuntu 9.10
Arun Shrimali
arun.reso at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 05:32:07 UTC 2009
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Dedhi Sujatmiko
<sujatmiko.dedhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew Kane wrote:
>> I'm unclear as to why this is necessary or desirable. Ubuntu is
>> already a multi-user system out of the box. The X Window system was
>> designed from the ground up to work over a network. Surely this has
>> been done before in a way that doesn't require a proprietary black
>> box?
>
> Yes, but that proprietary black box gives the connectivity and provide
> Keyboard-Video-Mouse with PXE boot.
> We can also create custom thin client with PXE boot and using the LTSP,
> however the thin client price is still more expensive than the Ncomputing.
>
> Ncomputing is actually nice. The Chinese company made that in bulk thus
> so cheap. Sometimes I can get the old version in the Hongkong's
> www.dealextreme.com dirt cheap.
> The problem is that NComputing use proprietary technology and very slow
> in catching up with the real world. Also, it does not have cooperation
> with Microsoft, thus many time, a simple Windows update will break that.
>
>
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I think NComputing should use opensource and get the support from the
community atleast for the Linux OS. This way also we can reduce the
hardware cost.
Arun
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