Putting your Ubuntu desktop in the cloud

Posted by mcasperson on Nov 12, 2010 1:49 PM EDT
Brighthub; By Matthew Casperson
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Canonical have an interesting trial service available where you can get a version of Ubuntu 10.10 up and running withing the Amazon EC2 environment to play with for an hour or so. Obviously it's not enough time to do anything serious, but I thought I would try it out to see if I could actually get a fully functional cloud based desktop. Even with an hour it is possible to see just how well a remote desktop can be when hosted on the Amazon infrastructure.

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