On Mon, October 13, 2014 1:50 pm, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Chris Beattie cbeattie@geninfo.com wrote:
On 10/13/2014 7:17 AM, Steve Clark wrote:> Yes but you have to be physically close to the main cpu. What about
distractions from other people sitting right next to you? Playing music, etc.
That's not all that different from modern cube farms. You learn to tolerate or ignore other people, or more ideally, collaborate well with your closest co-workers.
Where I work, there are people sitting side-by-side at folding tables (business has picked up faster than physical facilities can keep up with). In our case, they're all using zero clients and virtual desktops. However, it's exactly the kind of setup where a multi-seat computer might make sense for other companies or schools that don't have our virtualization expertise.
Being able to grab your existing desktop remotely with all open windows and long-running programs intact is a big plus, though - and you get that for free with NX or x2go. Can you connect remotely to your VM host some other way if you aren't at the special desktop?
How much different is that from VNC? Just curious.
Valeri
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