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Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access

Posted by timothy on from the new-measure-of-software-completeness dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "According to a message posted to a public mailing list dedicated to Chrome OS, a new feature is in the works that will grant users access to 'legacy PC applications' through some kind of remote desktop connection process. Google software engineer Gary Kamark, who first spilled the beans on the feature, calls the process 'Chromoting.' The current speculation amongst Chrome enthusiasts is that the Chromoting process is more akin to a VPN/sharing functionality than anything else. In that case, one would have to leave one's Windows-based desktop or laptop system on in order to access apps via a connected Chrome OS computer — which is hardly a technological leap given that numerous applications today offer users an analogous screen-sharing / remote access functionality."

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  1. Re:Seems pretty cool to me by aztracker1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not Apple... MS is fine with you buying a Windows license for the machine you are remoting into. I suspect Apple is pretty okay with it to. MS hasn't really ever tried to stop the likes of VNC, PC-Anywhere, GoToMyPC, etc. I do think this is pretty much non-news though. Unless they add a value like the auto-proxy that gotomypc does. Remote desktop does work pretty well as it stands. I don't know the cost of terminal server licensing for windows, but for organizations with this kind of push, it may be worthwhile. I've been a proponent for remote desktop agents for a while now, as you can tighten down security into a very narrow secured port that has access to a remote desktop server (linux or windows). Don't have to worry about a stolen laptop compromising, when all that is on it is a remote client that doesn't save passwords.

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  2. Re:Put another way by jvin248 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is really a diversion from the real application: Chrome OS with an advanced integrated Wine implementation.

    All the goodness of Linux with a measure of "backwards compatibility" - because that is what general users want.
    General users like the idea of Linux, but fear they will have to learn something new (OpenOffice is _so_ much different than MSOffice of course...).

    I still remember fondly the Slax "Kill Bill Edition" back from 2005 - it had some wine integration.
    The new target for Linux though is OS X, especially for Ubuntu.(see purple theme 10.04).

    So what does it take to have a Mac-Wine equivalent? To run all those Mac and Hackintoshed programs?
    quick search turned up these possibilitites: (http://www.puredarwin.org/, http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/, http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/)

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