Here is a remote Mic and sound, not generic X but you can get it to work on Linux, you just have to pay and set it up, not as straight forward as a single X session : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5651202/can-local-usb-device-be-used-by-remote-application-through-x11-forwarding
so by remote usb you mean from a console you setup a ssh session? I don't think my manager or VP is gonna do this...
Most consumers do just that, consume data. The iPad and Android tablets make up like 99% of the market. There are apps for both platforms so why jump on the MS Win8 platform if there are NO apps? I am sure MS could have made a better way to sell win8 and the tablet interface, they are just too stuck in the rut you get into when you have monopoly power.
If GM had 70% of the car market and they wanted to start selling tires too I am sure they could FORCE the consumer to buy ONLY GM tires. How long would that last? Not sure as car buyers are not clueless like some consumers of compute devices.
Right now if you are a developer and you are not targeting the Apple and Android ecosystems you are on a dead end road. Seems like a LOT of programmers and small custom ISV's are still saying there is only one OS and it is Microsoft Windows. I am so gonna love it when this shit really hits the fan in 2014/2015.
and Citrix ICA was first a product in 1996 or so with the South Beach 1.5 beta. That later became WinFrame and was based on NT 3.51. So in 18 years how has X done what ICA has done? Can X natively do sound? I don't think so. Remote COM ports or Printer ports? We should be way beyond doing just remote graphics. Our users have tried the VMware drug and they like it, they just don't like Windows.
When Citrix came out with ICA that should have been an indication where remote display tech should be headed, then we have Microsoft doing RDP and now the king pin is VMware with PCoIP. What we need is a way to remote a whole computer and not just the graphics. Why?
ALL USERS want the following:
1) Remote sound
2) Remote USB
3) Video Acceleration between a client and server
Why so that simple web pages with Flash content do not suck. And so that all this crappy USB stuff that end users have purchased can work on a remote session.
your an idiot, just start buying software...
We have Windows Server 2008 r2 and have license servers running on this VM. It bluescreens because DIGI international will not fix a 64 bit driver. So youes Windows still bluescreens and when it does and it is repeatable it takes a LONG time for these vendors to fix broken code, why prolly because they have some 14 year old boy in India doing the development because it costs less...
You know your OS is mainstream when VMware makes it so you can centrally manage the OS instance as a VDI instance in the data center where it runs right next to big iron....
That also means Microsoft Windows x64 versions are such a small percentage that VMware is not wasting any time with them either... I wish our HP thin clients could connect to a broker that served up Ubuntu instances. Some people need accelerated 3D, 2D, USB redirection, smart card authentication and local printers. Right now VMware has a monopoly on getting everything to work. Sun might be able to but you have to do Solaris and All Sun hardware from front to back.
Let me know if I am missing anything here....
Use your Swiss Army Knife...
Time to add more tools to your tool belt. Yes you are going to have to think OUTSIDE the box. Yes you are going to have to use some product other than Microsoft and you are going to have to pay the Enterprise licensing fees. They are really not that bad. VMware View with the ThinApp option.
You make think apps of your web browsers with the version of Java needed and only allow that thin app to work with that one site. You need to have AD and group policies and a license of thin app for every machine. It seems odd that VMware can sell a solution to the problem while Microsoft buries their head in the sand and works on stupid projects like the Surface Coffee Table PC....
And no you cannot use any other OS, you are still tied to Windows with VMware.
Come on guys....
How many home users know that if they have an IPv6 setup at home that it will travel with them when they take their notebook to Starbucks? Did Starbucks or any other WIFI site had IPv6 setup wrong, guess what!?!? The bad guys can poke you at any hot spot that is setup wrong, once they have your IPv6 they can just have the malware reply back to the controller node when it has a valid IPv6 address. Now how is it that these Home users understand how the Internet was suppose to work.
BAM!
Is your AV software also IPv6 compatible to understand these new exploits and connectivity?
Home users expect that when they are at a hotspot they are protected. ALL the hot spot operators I know barely know hot to turn the damn thing on or when it needs to be reset.
I a sure the mainframe guys said the same thing about PC's. Don't let the schools use PC's they have a Mini or a Mainframe and is secure and robust. So the windows warheads come out and say the same thing about the iPad, u know what, I do not care anymore. If microsoft's empire crumbles maybe the replacement is better. Any thing to get rid of that ass Mr. Balmer and Michael Dell.
"In one version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of 30 men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greek army entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war.:
One came in the front door via corporate IT and the other came in the back door via the home users.
The trojan horse is VMware virtual servers and desktops. VMware has a free version of ESX for small businesses. VMware is in 1000 of the fortune 1000. VMware can run databases as fast as bare metal and there are only 5 in the world that are too big to run on VMware. When you run a virtual server you are running Windows on Linux, not stock linux but a version that has been tweaked to virtualize the hardware for windows.
Next is Virtual Desktop computers and then the nail in the coffin, Virtual Applications that execute like WINE for any OS that has the VMware client. Now you have to convince users why they need windows when VMware can run your x86 apps and present the display to any OS. This is the death of MS in the corporate market.
Home users started with a different trojan horse, the iPod, iPhone and iPad. The home users are also buying Mac computers, not good for MS.
VMware just has to get a way for developers to write code for new apps that just run on VMware with no regard for the OS, then you will see vb finally die.
People use computers for applications, not for the OS. Users do not care about OSes. Windows 95 was a big deal because the user could run 32 bit apps and not have to deal with the 8 bit dos drivers and memory issues. Not a single home user needs 64 bit. Sloppy CAD systems need it but that is because the users are stupid and the developers of the software are idiots as well, i.e. catia, ProE and SolidWorks.
You speak of vulnerabilities and percentages. You are speaking of the KNOWN ones. You think there are only 16 vulnerabilities in Windows 7?
You sound just like a ms troll. RDP by Microsoft sucks donkey balls.
3D CAD/CAM apps run slow on TS and 3D is not accelerated via rdp. PCoIP can do it and so can HP RGS.
And I have been running AutoCAD and CADRA on Terminal server for 2D applicaions since 1994 with Citrix South Beach Beta 1.5, then WinFrame.
Get the fuck off my lawn!
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