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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. Great.... by macintard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Almost" as responsive as VNC? So it sucks even more?

  2. Name? by DaFallus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do so many open source projects have the dumbest names? Whats next? Ketchup? Towel? Come on guys, put the bowl down for five minutes and come up with a name that isn't related to the munchies in front of you or the stains on your shirt.

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    1. Re:Name? by TheQuantumShift · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Would you prefer "Remote Access Desktop Professional Ultimate - Browser Edition 9 (SP4)"

      Of course there is a happy medium, descriptive plays on words and acronyms (Rhythmbox, Gnumeric, Gedit, etc.) But why not have totally off the wall names like Pidgin, Gimp, Bluefish, etc. It makes things distinctive. Open source is about having fun (usually) so why box it in?

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  3. Re:Hmmm... by fang0654 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My company uses FormFlow Filler extensively, for filling out government forms. It was bought by Adobe and killed, with the end of life in 2004. It barely runs on XP, let alone anything later. If it was open sourced, I'm sure even with my meager coding skills I could at least keep it functional, since it is still heavily used. Point being, proprietary software being shelved sucks much more than open source software being shelved.