Re: Advice needed on developing app for linux

From: Elp (rockfamily_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: 12 Aug 2004 14:34:58 GMT

Hi Graeme,

Graeme Hinchliffe wrote:
> More a question than an answer... but I looked at the screenshot, and
> read what you have written, and it seems that you are making an app
> that emulates a desktop environment? If so, why? what does it give
> you that just running these apps on your windows/linux desktop
> doesn't?
>
> As you say, under linux I can play Flash, watch video and run a
> variety of apps, so why would I need your app to run them within it?

Well, what you can not see on the screenshot is that everything is remote.
Actually, the goal of this application is to provide a tool for students in
embedded systems to do experiments on real and expensive hardware
(microcontrollers, FPGA...) from their home without the need to come to the
university lab. They install our app on their computer connected to the
internet, book a time slot on our system and then they can then see all the
electronic components, wire them, see the output of the oscilloscope,
multimeter.. use the specialized software needed to configure all the
electronic instruments, see helpful lecture videos explaining them how to do
the experiments...

All that is real, not simulated but they can do all their experiment on any
computer connected to the internet without the need to have all this
expensive (and bulky) hardware and software setup at home. These are at the
university and and they are accessed remotely. Furthermore, our software
allows our students to do experiment anytime even at 3 in the morning if
they wish.

Can you see better now why i need to embedd all those components within a
single application? The other important point is that it has to be easy to
use and we of course also need to monitor and restrict the use of the system
(because, once again, they are using real hardware located at the
university). That's why i can't just give them a Flash file, a remote
desktop application, a web page, a bunch of video files and tell them:
launch everything and see what you can do with it. All has to be contained
within an intuitive and complete application.

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