http://www.onlive.com ? But yeah, I was wanting this to be user transparent for all applications, since there is no way we could modify proprietary applications that use a lot of processor real estate and this would be a one time deal, no need to do it on an app by app basis. But, I understand.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:42 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Josh Leverette <[email protected]> wrote: >> (And I have been known to get overexcited about ideas sometimes, which may >> cause an idea to go from cool to killer) > > A couple of years ago there was a startup doing exactly this for video > games. They would buy video games and let you play them remotely on > their servers. The game displays were converted into real-time video > streams. You paid by the hour. I've lost track of the company and > can't remember its name. You can do this in any OS, it does not need > Wayland support. > > All of these remoting technologies are focused on providing network > transparent access to legacy apps. Since this is the world of open > source, another strategy is to simply alter those legacy apps to use a > network transparent UI like HTML5. If OpenOffice were converted to > HTML5 you could still run it standalone by running both the client and > sever pieces on the same machine. > >> >> Sincerely, >> Josh >> >> On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Josh Leverette <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ah, ok, it's good to hear something remotely (no pun intended) similar is >>> in the works. And I don't predict lion taking over by any means, just being >>> the best for a little while, even if expensive, and that windows hasn't >>> been feature competitive with Linux in at least a couple of years in my >>> opinion. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Josh >>> >>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Mostly, it is identically equal to "remote Wayland protocol". Except that >>>> this iSwifter thing is specific to remoting Flash applications. >>>> >>>> Speaking of which there is a GSOC'11 proposal over on X.org to do the >>>> remote Wayland protocol. >>>> >>>> The parts about Lion taking over the world I am skeptical of seeing that >>>> to my knowledge Lion is only going to run on hardware supplied by Apple, >>>> which is a tiny fraction of all hardware. >>>> >>>> But, don't let me dissuade anyone, it is open source and people should >>>> feel free to work on anything they think is valuable. >>>> >>>> On 03/16/2011 10:53 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote: >>>>> Um. >>>>> >>>>> This sounds overly grandiose and not really Wayland-specific. Also, most >>>>> people don't have lots of iron sitting in their garages. I think you may >>>>> have upgraded "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" to "Dude, this is a killer >>>>> feature!" >>>>> >>>>> Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C. >>>>> >>>>> On Mar 16, 2011 7:11 PM, "Josh Leverette" <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> wayland-devel mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> wayland-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> wayland-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >> > > > > -- > Jon Smirl > [email protected] _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
