Ulteo: What Gael Did Next
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:40.
Almost immediately upon leaving Mandrakesoft, he began making teasing statements about his next project, claiming it would revolutionise the way we use computers.
The Ulteo project, as it became known, was all about freeing us from our home desktops by offering a virtual Linux operating system which 'lived' on the world wide web, and which we could access from wherever there was internet access.
A recent announcement that Ulteo's Application System live CD had reached a stable stage was enough to convince me that Ulteo warranted more detailed examination.
I will come to Ulteo's online presence shortly, but first let me cover the Application System, 'Sirius', which is what the rest of us know as a Linux live CD (get it here).
Use Sirius and you will quickly realise that it is an Ubuntu derivative.
As live CDs go it is, frankly, quite ordinary – and with one killer bug, which I will come to later.
The live installer is pure Ubuntu, which is no bad thing as it does its job perfectly well. The only differences I could see where in the Ulteo branding.
All cloud computing lack speed until edgeQam video brailled
We have been forging ahead with high speed CableTV broadband, which will have Docsis3.0; 50 mbps or better. EdgeQam is being tested in Korea. Edge will need several layers of data compression(50x). Digital to analog then back to digital again.
Until edgeQam and video braille is available, Servers are too slow to service many users in cloud computing.
The concept of using only ascii codes and its data compression methods are futile. The packet length is too long. .net packets are too long. Reduced bandwidth means severe data compression beyond double digit of compression ratio is needed.
So, midiri is holed up waiting for data transmission methods to materialize. Microsoft data centers are budgeted for another $500 million this year, and they need docsis PBX packet switching, realtime multithreaded packets for parallel processing, and another layer of video braille data processing to reduce bandwidth some more. Currently we are planning 50x ratio data compression layers.