Amazon EC2 cloud desktop

[trent shipley]

Got this option working on a t2.med.

Trent.

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:55 AM Herminio Hernandez Jr. <
herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Install the xubuntu-desktop meta package then install X2GO server. Install
> the  X2GO client on your machine and you should be good to go.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 23, 2017, at 1:33 AM, trent shipley <trent.shipley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have a pre-built EC2 AMI with RStudio I use to study R. I can use it
> from my Mac or Windows machine. It is nice.
> >
> > I want an EC2 Ubuntu 16.04 AMI to use as an affordable cloud based Linux
> machine to play with toys, like teaching myself Haskell. Take lappy for
> coffee, get internet on the phone. Do Haskell exercises. Go home. Continue
> exercises on desktop. (I can run Linux virtual guests on both the Mac and
> Windows machine.)
> >
> > Unfortunately, it looks like using the image is a sysadmin challenge,
> not least because if you want a GUI, you have to get it working on your
> own. I'm way down the sysadmin learning curve, compounded by the fact that
> I usually don't enjoy system administration chores.
> >
> > Has anyone got some useful thoughts?
> >
> > Trent
> >
> >
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