How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop

Re:How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop by mleonhard on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:30PM (#2124384)

- A micro instance should work, although you'll only have 600 MB of memory. Also, I hear that micro instances have poor cpu scheduling, which would make your apps to feel jerky and sometimes freeze for 1-2 seconds. If you try it please let me know how it works.

- FreeNX provides a graphical interface. It makes your Linux program windows appear on your Windows machine.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop by tdfx on Thursday January 20, 2011 @01:56PM (#2124792)

I don't know about the FreeNX server, but if you use a lightweight window manager like fluxbox 600MB of memory will be more than you need for most things.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop by dustingetz on Thursday January 20, 2011 @06:38PM (#2125796)

oh, i assumed the jerking was lag! that explains a lot!

[ Parent | on HN ]