[Social-discuss] Re: Personal Information Management and Virtual Desktop

[Brylie Oxley]

There is a concept called Thin Client computing where different
computers access application resources on a central control computer. An
example for GNU/Linux is the Linux Terminal Server Project:
http://ltsp.org

There are two examples of Virtual Desktops of which I am aware:
http://eyeos.org
http://www.lucid-desktop.org/

There is also an actively developed groupware application (mashup)
called OpenGoo which comes close to being aa virtual deskrop:
http://www.opengoo.org/

eyeOS, Lucid, and OpenGoo could all be used to share information behind
a login screen. I am not sure how these could be integrated into Social
but I believe that this would be beneficial.


> How difficult would it be to install a GNU/Linux onto a server and share
>  GUI applications and folders with people... with some way to not only
> give various permissions but to identify who/when various end users have
> viewed/opened any file or folder... eg. history function.
> 
> I figure it is do-able but probably needs a good computer and great
> network connection to make it work well.  Not sure how FirstClass was
> always able to pull it off... I mean it worked well back when I was
> using a dial-up modem (it started off originally back in the old BBS
> days pre-internet/www).