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Open Source Guacamole Puts VNC On the Web

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there's-an-app-for-that dept.

tbitiss writes "A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration. Guacamole is an HTML5 and JavaScript (Ajax) VNC viewer that makes use of a VNC-to-XML proxy server written in Java. According to its developers, Guacamole is almost as responsive as native VNC and should work in any browser supporting the HTML5 canvas tag. Supporting 10 Linux desktops in 10 browser tabs? I like the sound of that."

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  1. bucng of layers by sourcerror · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please, can't we have some more abstraction layers? My machine is just so fast I can't handle it. (Yeah, I know, we use the extra performance to services which were unfeasible earlier blah, blah...)

    1. Re:bucng of layers by c++0xFF · · Score: 4, Funny

      Please, can't we have some more abstraction layers?

      Maybe we should make a new project called "BeanDip" ... it has 7 layers, including Guacamole.

  2. Gee, what are the chances... by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    that Guacamole would be announced on Cinco de Mayo?

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    1. Re:Gee, what are the chances... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Cinco de better have your fuckin papers

  3. Layers? by twoallbeefpatties · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you prefer a seven-layer Guacamole dipswitch?

    I'm sorry, but I must not be the only one who's facepalming over a post about Guacamole being posted on Cinco de Mayo.

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  4. Re:Name? by hansamurai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, your username is DaFallus.

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  5. Re:What's old is new by al.caughey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got 10 digits but I'm only using two of them to type this message