Zararfa SummerCamp 2012 - Markus Feilner - keynote - new game for tomorrows enterprise desktop

Zarafa SummerCamp 2012
Open Source Business Trends 2012 1/23
Keynote by Markus Feilner

80ies
New game for
tomorrow's
90ies
enterprise desktop
Markus Feilner,
Linux-Magazin

2012:

© Markus Feilner, mfeilner@linux-magazin.de


First:
The Linux desktop ain't dead:
● City of Munich, Spain, Brazil, many others
● More and more blogs, reports and articles in
renowned non-tech papers report „I installed
Linux and it simply worked.“



Quelle:
Brad Colbow,
„The Brads“,
http://www.bradco
lbow.com



But... does anybody still care?



A community
not quite unityed...
● A fierce debate about Linux desktops is going
on: KDE, Gnome, Unity, LXDE, Cinnamon →
Where is this going?
● KDE4: Still Problems with Akonadi backend
● Gnome 3: Lots of critizism
● Ubuntu Unity: Not accepted by power users



Linus' Views …
● Linus Torvalds on Gnome 3:
„If you treat your users like idiots, only idiots
will use your software.“
● Linus Torvalds on the Linux Desktop:
„The whole 'ubiquitous web browser' thing has
made that kind of consumer play be more
realistic.“
● And for sure he loves NVidia



Is there a Solution?
● In fact, there is a desktop technology offering
huge possibilities.
● It can do video and all the stuff that Flash can,
but it doesn't suck your battery empty.
● It supports both desktop and other applications,
no matter if on- or offline
● It's free, standardized and runs on all operating
systems we know today, yes even on Apple's!



Some Technology Bingo
● Video integration,
● Web sockets,
● Canvas,
● Microdata,
● I believe there is much more yet to come in ...

→ HTML 5


HTML 5 will change the desktop
Innovative projects show the power of HTML 5:
● Remote desktop access via VNC and RDP
● Remote (wifi) access to your Smartphone
● Structured data within websites
● Open/Libre Office and other (today still pure
desktop) apps can be converted live to HTML 5
● No client needed, a simple browser will do.



What about industry support?
● Microsoft → Windows 8 (This is actually when
the Internet Explorer will „learn“ HTML 5)
● Android (what else?)
● Even Apple (Jobs has always favored HTML 5
over the CPU- and battery consuming Flash)
● Tizen (Maemo/Meego successor), Boot2Gecko
(Mozilla)
● And also: BlackBerry RIM



Access any VNC
server from a
browser. No need
Guacamole
for a plugin or
Java app.

Gucamole uses
Tomcat/Apache
to convert VNC
on-the-fly into
HTML 5.

Onscreen
keyboard and
clipboard.

Newest feature:
RDP support (to
access Windows,
Virtualbox, ...)



Free RDP Webconnect
Access any RDP
server with a on-
the-fly, light-
weight RDP-to-
HTML5 converter.

Onscreen
keyboard and
clipboard.



Access all the
data on your
smartphone with Airdroid
a simple HTML-5-
GUI.

The Android app
Airdroid starts a
web server and
returns a
password plus
the phone's IP.

After log in, you
can add/remove
data, manage
your contacts,
send SMS... all
within your
browser...



A typical web business card?
<head><link rel="profile" href="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard"/></head>
<body>
<h1>Pedro Miguel Díaz - el Arte Guitarra Flamenca</h1>
<div id="me" class="vcard">
<img alt="" class="photo" src="images/el-fumador.jpg"/>
<a class="url fn" href="http://el-fumador.info">Pedro Miguel Díaz</a>
<span class="nickname">el Fumador</span><br/>
<span class="title">Flamenco Artist</span>
<div class="adr">
<span style="display:None" class="type">Home</span>
<span class="street-address">C/ Peral 43</span><br/>
<span class="postal-code">E-41002</span>
<span class="locality">Sevilla</span><br/>
<span class="country-name">España</span> </div>
<span class="email">pedro@fumador.info</span><br/>
<div class="tel">
<span class="type" style="display:None">Home</span>
<span class="value">+34 954 88 24 37</span>
</div> </div> </body> </html>


HTML 5 can do that better...
<body>
<div id="me" itemscope itemtype="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">
<img alt="" itemprop="photo" src="images/el-fumador.jpg"/>
<a rel="me" itemprop="url fn" href="http://el-fumador.info">Pedro Miguel
Díaz</a>
<span itemprop="nickname">el Fumador</span><br/>
<span itemprop="title">Flamenco Artist</span>
<div itemscope itemprop="adr">
<span style="display:None" itemprop="type">Home</span>
<span itemprop="street-address">C/ Peral 43</span><br/>
<span itemprop="postal-code">E-41002</span>
<span itemprop="locality">Sevilla</span><br/>
<span itemprop="region">Andalucía</span><br/>
<span itemprop="country-name">España</span>
</div>
<span itemprop="email">pedro@fumador.info</span><br/>
<div class="tel" itemscope>
<span itemprop="type" style="display:None">Home</span>
<span itemprop="value">+34 954 88 24 37</span>
</div></div></body></html> © Markus Feilner, mfeilner@linux-magazin.de


GTK3-library that
„redirects“ any output
Broadway
of Linux desktop
programs to HTML 5.

Still in a very early
stage, but Libre Office
already works, on Suse
12.1. This keynote is
the first fully browser-
independent presen-
tation.

The Libre Office
„Weboffice“ team is
developing and
continuously
improving.



A little live demo
● Some technical details of the „demo cloud“:
● Host: Root server, 8 cores, 12 GByte RAM, 1
TByte Storage. Costs less than 50 €/month
● Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with KVM+Libvirt. Managed
(mostly) by Virt-manager and Virsh.
● Guest #10: Open Suse 12.1 (Netinstall, 32-Bit),
1 dedicated Core, 2 GByte RAM, 10 GByte HD



Thanks to the Suse people!
● „Weboffice“-tar.gz + Installer by Suse
(Thanks to Michael Meeks and his colleagues!)
● Libre Office is started with some variable magic,
GDK_BACKEND redirects output to Port 8080.
● Up to last week, the client browser has been a
problem because FF changed Websocket
behaviour for security reasons after version 4.1
(!). Since a few days this has been fixed.



Hopefully – here comes
THE DEMO



New Game:
● Cloud, web, mobile are the buzzwords of
tommorrow's enterprise „desktops“.
● Data, software and systems will consolidate
within your hybrid cloud.
● The problem of „endpoint security“ will be
solved by not storing stuff on mobile devices
→ The focus will be on traffic security. With
BYOD that's as good as possible. :-(



True freedom of choice!
● After all those years, the browser will become
the universal client that so many augures have
predicted for a long time.
● The term „operating system“ is becoming less
and less relevant. Who cares if you are using
Android, iOS, Chrome OS, Tizen, Boot2Gecko,
Windows (with or without Metro) or even a
Linux with KDE, Gnome, LXDE or ...?
→ It's the browser that matters.



Borders disappear
● The distinction between a browser, a mobile
and a desktop „App“ is rapidly vanishing.
● Users will no longer notice the difference.
● Content and presentation will eventually really
be separated.



Thanks a lot for
Listening!

Markus Feilner,
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine Germany,
Mail: mfeilner@linux-magazin.de
Web: http://www.linux-magazin.de
Google+: https://plus.google.com/105201437130417639658


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