Cendio ThinLinc

On a scale of awful to pretty chill, how do your days of managing virtual desktop sessions for your users go?

For all Linux sysadmins delaying their bedtime: don't let your VDI affect your sleep schedule. Get one that's built for Linux instead.

Thinlic is the only Linux(-only) VDI solution in the world. Guess that gives you a clue on the Lynx already using it.

Life is not easy for Linux sysadmins using Linux-second VDIs or self-built solutions. Wondering if something could make it smoother...

We could say much about ThinLinc. But Linux sysadmins who use it to keep sessions up all day definitely say it better.

Sensitive data presents a paradox. Lock it down, and researchers cannot reach it. Open the door, and security vanishes. Most teams choose a third option. They travel. They fly researchers to a cold room, sit them next to the files, and ensure nobody takes a copy home. It works. But it only works until the collaboration spans three different countries, and your dwindling flight budget abruptly becomes your only form of access control. Listen to a quieter move. Keep the data exactly where it is. Put the Linux session right next to it. The dataset never leaves the enclave. Only the display travels. And suddenly, when a researcher logs in from across the ocean, they can interact effortlessly with RStudio, Matlab, and the lab's bespoke applications in real time, working as if they were sitting right at the local desk, analyzing the world's most sensitive information through a highly secure window that transmits the pixels but never the precious data itself. We just published a short film from the EOSC Siesta project on this exact pattern. ThinLinc provides one way to give people this vital access without moving the data. A museum is secure. A leak is open. Neither is the job.