[ale] Remote Desktop for Everything?

[Jim Kinney]

Yeah. But if the cloud was my own and the tablet was truly mine (i.e.
rooted and reinstalled with my choice of binaries), I could see how
this could be useful. Puts the backup needs in one space.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> So, being the security-conscious (paranoid) guy I am, I would not
> trust most cloud providers with all my data.  Plus, the OS on tablets
> is too restrictive unless you root and do CM or something.
>
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Vernard Martin <vernard at venger.net> wrote:
>> On 10/23/2012 02:06 PM, JD wrote:
>>> Has anyone else attempted this?
>>> * Setup a Linux desktop "in the cloud"
>>> * Remote desktop into the cloud-desktop, as needed
>>> * Use ssh whenever possible
>>> * Use a tablet as your primary interface
>>>
>>> Here's a story http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later
>>> about a guy doing just that for almost all his desktop needs. Interesting read
>>> for the Linux crowd.
>>>
>> I do this right now for a few of my clients at work. We have Linux
>> servers on Amazon EC2 and they use NoMachine Client so that we can
>> connect and disconnect to the server and leave the desktop intact. Works
>> pretty well except for when they need to move terabytes of data into and
>> out of the server....
>>
>> Several of them found that the tablets were a bit restrictive for the
>> work they were doing due to low resolution size. Most of them use 15"
>> Macbook Pros instead.
>>
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