free remote linux boxes for all! ...but new sign-ups are temporarily suspended. :(

[Michael Hughes]

I may be late to this game as this seems to have been around since
early '07, but it's a very interesting service:
https://desktopondemand.com/
And it was FREE! No wonder they're over-booked!
-Mike

(if you're not a member of the "UMUC Linux Users Group" and are
wondering why you got this, it's because I bcc'd you. You're welcome
to join!)

[Jeff Davis]

I wonder how you can set one of these up... maybe we can do this for
our group somehow or another

[Michael Hughes]

Hi Jeff, welcome to the group! :)

From what I gather it looks like it uses java to display the desktop
on the client's side, and - guessing here - maybe a VNC-type server to
pass the screen to the client. It might just use 'ssh -X' (see
previous post regarding cygwin) to transfer the screen to the client,
but I think something like VNC would be more optimized for this.
-mike