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Can't you use rdesktop to a defined Remote App in Windows? Or is that only in a Windows Server OS?

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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University


-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of ToddAndMargo
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:38 PM
To: Vladimir Mosgalin; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Is it time to think about another disto?

On 05/20/2015 04:58 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi ToddAndMargo!
>
>   On 2015.05.19 at 20:29:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote next:
>
>> Despite Red Hat's assurance that EL6 will be supported till 2020, I 
>> am finding a lot of stuff that Red Hat is not willing to fix in EL6, 
>> but is going to or already has fixed in EL7.
>>
>> I had SL7 on one of my machines for a while and I currently have it 
>> in a VM on my main office machine.  I really like it and think it is 
>> really well done.
>>
>> Except that there is a problem that can not be worked around:
>> no Wine 32.
>
> I believe we discussed it on this same list before and I showed you 
> how to run wine in SL7 (in container with Fedora, using either 
> systemd-nspawn or docker). Which is no-overhead solution, well 
> basically this is only overhead of having a directory with base Fedora 
> system in there.
>
> Specifically,
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scientific.user/7336
>
> (though by now you'd want to use fedora 21 repo for more up-to-date
> wine)

Docker would be a solution.  I am heavily into KVM and wanted to stay with it.  Also Docker has all kind of security issues and I wanted to avoid them, as I do penetration testing for PCI (credit card security).

Does Docker do Coherence (seamless windows)?

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