it's not secret or anything. it can't be, since anyone can see what's running on the servers. we just wanted to make it clear that this was no press release. especially not an ebay one.
a 'workspot', as we think of it, is a linux desktop you can use through a browser. it's server-side computing, including software rental, with a linux interface. store your stuff on it, run your applications on its vnc connection, serve up web sites. that's the idea. desktop.com, and a lot of similar things, have their own interfaces. "why not just use linux as is?" we asked ourselves. we hope to prod more people to port software to linux, and work on the ui generally, by offering a bigger market -- net surfers. we're just getting started here -- please be gentle.
hi. this was not an official ebay announcement. word got out because we thanked the engineers at debian. which we do gratefully. we're a debian gnu/linux shop, who happen to work with ebay. the use of free software, the best stuff in our opinion, was OUR decision, not ebay's. cheers -- workspot
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it's not secret or anything. it can't be, since anyone can see what's running on the servers. we just wanted to make it clear that this was no press release. especially not an ebay one.
a 'workspot', as we think of it, is a linux desktop you can use through a browser. it's server-side computing, including software rental, with a linux interface. store your stuff on it, run your applications on its vnc connection, serve up web sites. that's the idea. desktop.com, and a lot of similar things, have their own interfaces. "why not just use linux as is?" we asked ourselves. we hope to prod more people to port software to linux, and work on the ui generally, by offering a bigger market -- net surfers. we're just getting started here -- please be gentle.
hi. this was not an official ebay announcement. word got out because we thanked the engineers at debian. which we do gratefully. we're a debian gnu/linux shop, who happen to work with ebay. the use of free software, the best stuff in our opinion, was OUR decision, not ebay's. cheers -- workspot