Comments on: Viva Virtualization: Redefining the Desktop http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Bryan Richard http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1068 Wed, 14 May 2008 04:31:29 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1068 Good comment. I completely <a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5964" rel="nofollow">agree</a> and rather like your definition of a "completely new" OS. :-) Good comment. I completely agree and rather like your definition of a “completely new” OS. :-)

]]> by: Kostas Mitropoulos http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1065 Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50:48 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1065 Well, I don't know, sure this is true for IT environments, but other business/disciplines - possibly not. To me, virtualisation for the desktop is a maintenance management measure - recovery is as simple as deploying a new VM, nothing to fix....just make sure user profiles are centralised too.... The way I see it, this (virtualisation) spells the end of the desktop OS - it is becoming as easy to change from one to the other on a whim...and when Bill demands a few hundred dollars so we can beta test his new OS, have to relearn stuff again because he changed the pcitures and buried stuff we need in seven layaers of redundant windows "are you sure? Are you really, really sure?" and take the time to save files, programs, install new Vista, Windows8 or whatever then reload our programs in again and find some don't work....who needs it? The only room for the desktop OS is something completely new - an OS that grabs a CD or a USB device and says, "do you want me to install this XYZ thingy - and does so successfully everytime, an OS that calls you on your mobile and says 'There is an important email from John do you want to hear it?", an operating system that somehow reflects the fact that we are in the 21st. Century - way past "2001 - A space odyssey". Surely we can do better than the distinctly 1995 stuff we deal with now? Well, I don’t know, sure this is true for IT environments, but other business/disciplines - possibly not. To me, virtualisation for the desktop is a maintenance management measure - recovery is as simple as deploying a new VM, nothing to fix….just make sure user profiles are centralised too….

The way I see it, this (virtualisation) spells the end of the desktop OS - it is becoming as easy to change from one to the other on a whim…and when Bill demands a few hundred dollars so we can beta test his new OS, have to relearn stuff again because he changed the pcitures and buried stuff we need in seven layaers of redundant windows “are you sure? Are you really, really sure?” and take the time to save files, programs, install new Vista, Windows8 or whatever then reload our programs in again and find some don’t work….who needs it?

The only room for the desktop OS is something completely new - an OS that grabs a CD or a USB device and says, “do you want me to install this XYZ thingy - and does so successfully everytime, an OS that calls you on your mobile and says ‘There is an important email from John do you want to hear it?”, an operating system that somehow reflects the fact that we are in the 21st. Century - way past “2001 - A space odyssey”. Surely we can do better than the distinctly 1995 stuff we deal with now?

]]> by: Krish Chaitanya http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1043 Thu, 01 May 2008 19:02:25 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1043 Excellent article, highly recommended. Only I wish you could explain in detail things like hypervisor et al. By the way, I am a start-up's build master and I have 40 build machines (all Virtual). So I am another class of people who would be very interested in tracking the progress of this wonderful innovation. Excellent article, highly recommended. Only I wish you could explain in detail things like hypervisor et al. By the way, I am a start-up’s build master and I have 40 build machines (all Virtual). So I am another class of people who would be very interested in tracking the progress of this wonderful innovation.

]]> by: briscofan http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1042 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:39:04 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1042 Well written, I to am just getting into it and loving it. I can't wait to learn more. Doris Dunn, the Department Chair for Computer Information Services at Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon Washington has been using virutalization heavily much like the professor at Central Washington and it has had a major impact on the amount of knowledge that can be obtained from the classes offered. Well written, I to am just getting into it and loving it. I can’t wait to learn more. Doris Dunn, the Department Chair for Computer Information Services at Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon Washington has been using virutalization heavily much like the professor at Central Washington and it has had a major impact on the amount of knowledge that can be obtained from the classes offered.

]]> by: bhoojie_voojie http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1039 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:37:59 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5813/#comment-1039 Excellent intro to Virtualization. I am just getting into it, and this makes very good reading. Clearly VMs are the machines of the future, and the future is here. Excellent intro to Virtualization. I am just getting into it, and this makes very good reading. Clearly VMs are the machines of the future, and the future is here.

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