Re: Clouds and thin clients at home.



Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Gordon wrote:

Can it be done?

Buy a big heavy duty machine.
Install Linux as the base OS.
Use Virtual Box to create various instances of Win or linux.
communicate with them via thin or "zero" clients.
Basicly one machine with multiple heads.

Can this be done?

How?

Will it work well?

That is the very model under which *nix was designed in the first place.

What, multiple VMs on single hardware? Not really, no.

No, thin client, client server.


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