Amazon EC2 cloud desktop

[Kevin Fries]

I think what you are seeking is how to utilize X as it was originally
written.... A lost art my friend.

For those unaware, X does not work like Windows systems.  Any X based
application issues commands as a X client, that is sent to a X server.
When you are on your local machine, these machines are the same, and the
protocol is hidden my going across localhost.  On Windows based machines,
program write by callings APIs in the OS that ALWAYS write to the local
machine.  The result is, that Linux does not require video on the local
box, just the X client.  You can, unlike a Windows box, have your programs
write directly to your remote connection!  If your X client is connected to
your X server over say SSH, via port 6000 (fisrt screen, 6001 for second
monitor, etc), your Linux desktop can display on your local X server (for
Windows desktop use MobaXterm), while running at AWS.

See
https://comtechies.com/how-to-set-up-gui-on-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-server.html
for a how to.

Enjoy
Kevin Fries

On Nov 23, 2017 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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