[Klug-general] cloud clients

[nic dan]

Dunno about this cloud stuff....

See here:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2948

and listen/watch Eben Moglen's views;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA

I favour the personal server/mesh computing approach, FWIW

Also someone was asking about a mediaserver....try mediatomb

http://mediatomb.cc/

or puppy+MPD

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38995


Aitch
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> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:34:03 +0100
> From: george.prowse at gmail.com
> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] cloud clients
> 
> On 01/06/2010 16:21, Dan Attwood wrote:
> > Does anyone here have any gems of wisdom to share about cloud clients?
> > By which I mean thin clients with a basic OS for access cloud based
> > services such as Google apps but with the option to boot into a full
> > virtual desktop.
> >
> > It seems that many of the big boys such as Dell are pushing zero
> > clients, ie thin clients with no OS at all that hook directly into
> > virtual desktops. This seems like overkill when combined with cloud
> > services.
> >
> Dropbox or Ubuntu One?
> 
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