Thorium Core is a commercial distribution of ReactOS, the Open Source Windows compatible operating system, targeted for cloud computing.
Thorium Core Cloud Desktop
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Thorium Core Cloud Desktop
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Re: Thorium Core Cloud Desktop
#2There are several problems I see with this.
Firstly, from their literature I am guessing they want to be grabbing on to people who want to continue using XP style services after Microsoft cuts support for XP next year, however I feel they will most definitely miss the boat with this one, 4 months is not a big migration window let-alone for development of the product.
Secondly, their core offering is support. A lot can be said about Microsoft's customer service, however I will never fault the support contracts they offer to businesses. I honestly cannot see how they intend to match that.
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#3I didn't pay too much attention but it isn't clear to me whether they're planning to go their own ways or develop in such a manner that they can cooperate with & contribute back to ReactOS. I'd like to see ReactOS grow.
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#4I don't see how this is connected to "cloud computing" in ANY way.
People just throw in the "cloud" word anywhere, don't they?
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#5I don't see how this is connected to "cloud computing" in ANY way. People just throw in the "cloud" word anywhere, don't they?
It never really meant anything, it was just a marketing term that went too far, encompassing so many different technologies and services that it could be applied to pretty much anything.
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#6I don't see how this is connected to "cloud computing" in ANY way. People just throw in the "cloud" word anywhere, don't they?
It never really meant anything, it was just a marketing term that went too far, encompassing so many different technologies and services that it could be applied to pretty much anything.
It never meant anything new, but it does mean something (mutualising resources and having access from anywhere and the like).
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#7I get that a lot of companies still rely on Windows, but aren't we slowly edging away from really needing it? Especially when more and more software is being written in platform-agnostic languages like Java?
I feel like a company willing to migrate to something like ReactOS could just as easily migrate over to some *nix variant. The only Windows-only thing that I can think of being essential would be Office (that might be the big one though).
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#8I don't see how this is connected to "cloud computing" in ANY way. People just throw in the "cloud" word anywhere, don't they?
It's a remote Windows desktop, running on a remote server and provided as SaaS.
While I agree that cloud is overused in general, it seems appropriate in this case.
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#9I didn't pay too much attention but it isn't clear to me whether they're planning to go their own ways or develop in such a manner that they can cooperate with & contribute back to ReactOS. I'd like to see ReactOS grow.
Exactly, the ReactOS project itself needs more funding, not sure if this helps.
At least it appears that the 2 people at the kickstarter project are part of the ReactOS team (http://www.reactos.org/wiki/People_of_ReactOS ) but the page at the kickstarter project appears to be written in a hurry. Wording like "Thorium core is an attempt to build" doesn't exactly garner a lot of trust in getting the work done.
I am not seeing the use case. Access to ReactOS from the cloud? Sorry, but that's very vague, they are going to copy remote desktop as well? It would help if ReactOS itself was stable already. It's a great piece of engineering. Amazing what they have done so far, but -at least during my limited testing- when playing with it in a virtual machine it never survived a stable session longer as a few hours. Bringing that to the cloud just means another layer of complexity and thus possible failure.
It is also not clear to me if the kickstarter project is actually connected to the ReactOS project and what the other contributors think about it. I would at least have expected a page at the ReactOS project about this if it was part of the rest. So far I have not seen a page on the ReactOS site about this and that would help for building trust in the kickstarter project.
Re: Thorium Core Cloud Desktop
#10I think this is the worst Kickstarter project I've ever seen