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Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon’s Cloud Desktop Service
Amazon WorkSpaces, the company's virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public...
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No love for Linux Amazon? What do you think your Kindle and your servers are running on..Hum?
I was a little disappointed that there's currently no Linux client for it quite yet. Just think about cutting your own Linux distro with the Amazon agent installed onto one of these little monsters. Suddenly every shitty box in the basement with a NIC can run a stable desktop.
I can see companies being really interested in this once the dust clears a little and people start trying to figure out how to re-purpose their dying Windows XP infrastructure. I wonder if Amazon's been waiting for the April deadline to pull the trigger on this.
I've been using it the past couple of days and it's worked fine for general computer use.