GHost: Flash-Based Operating System

I'm still trying to figure out what problem Webtops solve.

Portable functionality on limited systems, where the limitation is not technical, but policy-based (i.e. display systems that you can't break out of the web-browser on.) Not the most righteous cause, but a cause nonetheless.

Jesus that was painfully slow. I think it maxed out my 8Mb connection as well...

It did look slick though.

Every couple of months one of these wanders along by. They are looking slicker these days but they all have the same problem:

They are just OS mock-ups that don't do anything running in a browser.

When I can upload a vmware image and then run it quickly in a browser from anywhere, then we might have something, but until then, toy versions of real apps running in fake desktops are cool, very technical, and very impressive, but not useful.

I can almost feel the vibe of something like this coming from amazon EC2 eventually. Something with EC2, nomachine, persistent storage, vnc... its almost all there. Sounds like a ycombinator startup to me.

it doesnt even have a web browser

Why oh why?