This seems like a cool concept, but I didn't try it out because the demo requires FULL READ-WRITE access to my GitHub account, its organizations, and private details! Surely reading basic user info would suffice.
Why do I keep getting this distinct impression that people use containers to keep reinventing OS processes, but "in the cloud!"?<p>Next thing, you'll see announced a platform for reusable container services that can be dynamically linked from other containers - to avoid including them multiple times in your application containers that share the same version, and we'll have come full circle.<p>Is there a subtle detail about packaging software for distribution as isolated executables that I'm missing?
This looks cool, nice work. I was briefly trying to work on a "cloud desktop" system at one point but found it too much trouble to get it working properly.<p>> Because docker containers are lightweight and run without the extra load of an operating system, you can run many graphical applications on a single kernel.<p>This is an odd thing to say. Can't I already run many graphical applications on a single kernel even <i>without</i> docker containers? And wouldn't that be even <i>more</i> lightweight?
I applaud the work that went into this, but unless I'm missing something, they've recreated a terminal server, where nomachine has delivered desktops for ages and works over a connection as poor as dial-up.
Is this using Guacamole for its VNC client? In college [2012] I ran Guacamole on my home server for RDP remoting into my desktop PC from a Chromebook, and the performance was excellent. Curious to see what the experience is like with more newfangled Cloud Native stuff.
Since to be usable we need a modern WebVM, improperly named browser for legacy reasons, so we need a desktop merely used as a bootloader for thw WebVM what's the point of having a remote tools, witch means someone else computer (or at least another computer) + a desktop + the dependency on the network just to work?<p>Honestly I think it's about time to tell management that's nothing costly nor complicated in maintain desktops with custom deploys not just the default install by some vendor, and in supporting them instead of investing in servers with much more resources just to centralize for the point of merely centralize...<p>Sorry for being rude, I've used Apache Guacamole time ago and I still ask me why it was even though in the first place...
Looks neat. Seems to have a lot of overlap with Kasm Workspaces (<a href="https://www.kasmweb.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kasmweb.com/</a>) which is another cool project.
For a cloud native desktopless system I was thinking it should not be remote desktop based. Is there a cloud desktop, that is a bit more like NeWS? I mean text rendering client side as HTML/CSS, image and video view via img/video tags. A sprinkle of JS to make it smooth and dynamic. With normal windows and maybe even a taskbar would be splendid. Possible X or Wayland integration, but as separate windows in such a system. Is there something like this?
I got a 404 when attempting to view the demo, as the link says one URL but actually sends my browser to <a href="https://www.abcdesktop.io/demo" rel="nofollow">https://www.abcdesktop.io/demo</a> (instead of the demo subdomain)... not the most inspiring first impression, I must admit.
What is the performance like? I’ve found that VNC is garbage even in on a fast local network, let alone over the internet. I’ve yet to find something that works anywhere close to as well as Microsoft RDP, which feels like sitting in front of a local machine as long as you don’t try watching HD video or something.