In my last blog post about WebLive I announced the availability on WebLive of the top-50 apps from the new Ratings & Review service. Today I’m happy to announce that this feature is no longer necessary as you can now test drive anything that’s available in the Ubuntu archive. At the moment that’s over 1300 desktop application that you can test this way. As a reminder, all that you need is an up to date Ubuntu 11.04 system and theqtnx package installed (default in Edubuntu). This feature uses another of my pet projects Arkose to dynamically create containers (see LXC) whenever someone logs in. Each user is allocated up to 500MB for the test drive feature. On login, the system will check if it already has the requested app in the default system and if not, will download and install it when you connect. Enjoy ! NOTE: The current blacklist isn’t perfect, so if you notice any package that has a Test drive button in the Software Center and doesn’t work, please file a bug here:https://launchpad.net/weblive/+filebugTest drive the whole Ubuntu archive with WebLive
That’s basically any GUI app that requires less than 150MB of space to install and that’s not in one of my blacklists (video editing, 3D, VOIP, VMs, …).
Full desktop sessions are still available at: http://www.edubuntu.org/weblive
