We don't get too many details when it comes to Google's Chrome OS, but this tiny little tidbit dug up by The Register is certainly quite interesting. It looks as if Google is working on implementing remote desktop-like functionality into Chrome OS so you can directly control applications running on other computers within the browser.
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2005-07-11
Stop making up stupid names for existing things.
Remote desktop access is nothing new, so it doesn't need a new name.
And it's not rocket science to make this happen. The NX Client has a java version that runs in the browser. We use this all the time for staff/students that have issues installing the full NX Client on their Windows/Mac/Linux computer.
There are java versions of rdesktop and VNC as well.
There's nothing new here. So it doesn't need a new name.
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There's nothing new here. So it doesn't need a new name.
We don't know it yet.
BTW, handy tip for citrix users - if you can open msoffice documents on your citrix server, you can embed an OLE object that opens cmd.exe. After that, you'll get a somewhat more flexible citrix environment ;-).
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There's nothing new here. So it doesn't need a new name.
We don't know it yet.
BTW, handy tip for citrix users - if you can open msoffice documents on your citrix server, you can embed an OLE object that opens cmd.exe. After that, you'll get a somewhat more flexible citrix environment ;-). "
That's a stupid tip I'm sorry. I'm a Citrix engineer and we hate user's like you trying to get around system security and screw up our servers
Command prompt is easy to block with a group policy though, every admin does that so you shouldn't even be able to run commands like regedit, cmd etc. so I don't know what kind of sysop you got there but he must be really incompetent
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Could be, but I think Google is the kind of company that thinks big. So I think Google wants to virtualize everything that might be crucial from our "old" desktops.
You want to print?
Install our cloud print server and you can do it.
You want to run that one special windows application that you really really need and can't live without?
Install our chromotion server and select that app to be available to your ChromeOS device.(Chromotion server scans the application and reject things like DirectX games etc.) Easy.
Those two things alone ease the migration to ChromeOS a lot.
Member since:2005-07-11
You have it backwards. This isn't about remote access to a system running ChromeOS. This is an app that runs on ChromeOS that allows you to remotely access anything system to run a "legacy" app (as in, anything not running on ChromeOS).
Remote access to ChromeOS is called OpenSSH and X.
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2009-08-19
The link to chromoting.gyp does not work.
Seeing
http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/remoting/
I'd say now is
http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/remoting/remoting.gyp
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I am sure that Google does not intend users to remote desktop into their Windows PCs, but rather that they use full desktop apps that run on Google servers but display on the user screen via internet-optimized X.
An instance of OpenOffice running on their servers would be enough for hundreds or thousands of users, and these users would perceive it to be as fast as it would be on a fast desktop PC, although they would be using a cheap netbook with a low-power ARM device.
I think of OpenOffice because GoogleDocs is hardly a powerhouse office suite; and why spend time and money turning it into one, when the added complesity might be undesirable for its intended users, and when there is an alternative for power users available today, for free?
Of course, the same stands for many other Linux desktop apps, maybe after passing some sort of quality assurance by Google.
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