Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
>> > [...]
>> >> Imagine that technology applied to actual applications.... That run
>> >> anywhere HTML5 does.  Our idea of the desktop is gone. [...]
>>
>> What about remote desktop widgetry like VNC, running inside a web
>> browser?  If that becomes fast enough, perhaps there's no need to
>> reinvent everything else.
>
> Latency and other factors (like trying to teach your dad how to set
> something like that up) will ensure it doesn't happen.  Especially if the
> competing technologies already exist and have been properly formatted
> (like for a mobile device.)

Those don't sound entirely insurmountable technical challenges.  One
can run meego apps in a Xvfb (right?).  One can automate its
configuration.

> I don't think the future is making the desktop mobile or globally
> available.  I think it's letting $PROVIDER run it.

That is clearly the dominant narrative.  I wonder how far one can push
things in a slightly different direction, where $PROVIDER is in fact
one's own home server/desktop, interacting with the data already
stored there.  That sort of self-sufficiency has all sorts of FOSS
goodness about it.

- FChE