In August last year we have the Tech Preview of Linux Virtual Desktop. The response we received was overwhelmingly positive and everyone was eager to test it. Now Citrix is announcing excitedly that the Linux Virtual Desktop Tech Preview available for download!
The Linux Virtual Desktop Tech Preview is for all Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop customers under active Subscription Advantage or Software Maintenance and all Citrix partners.
Citrix is a pioneer in the past 25 years, the Windows App and Desktop Delivery lead with XenApp and XenDesktop. In the current era of app proliferation, the need for a secure, mobile and high-performance delivery of Linux desktop applications and has always been so important. Customers consider Citrix as a natural choice for virtualizing Linux applications and desktop support in their IT strategy. For some Linux Virtual Desktop is a natural extension of their XenApp and XenDesktop infrastructure Linux included, and for others it is the first step toward virtualization.
Many of the requirements for Linux applications relate to mission critical research and development work, the chip design, high-performance computing projects, numerical calculation done in financial and scientific modeling, large includes data analysis and engineering tools. In addition, for virtual desktop support Citrix customers ask for special applications built exclusively for Linux, especially in the oil and gas industry, manufacturing, digital media and entertainment industry. These customers need a secure, global access to staff offer a wide range of mobile and desktop devices, while keeping central control of critical intellectual property.
The Tech Preview support 'Hosted shared Linux desktops' , which give better ROI on your back-end infrastructure. The supported Linux distributions are 64-bit 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 "(RHEL) Workstation and Server Edition and " SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 11 Service Pack 3' (SLED / SLES) selected based on your interest in our surveys.
you can now Linux Virtual desktop in XenApp / XenDesktop 7.5 or 7.6 test environment contains, add existing components such as storefront, Broker, studio and director. Once the Linux machine to the domain using standard Active Directory (AD) binding tools like Winbind and Quest are connected, you only need the RPM package and setup the desktop catalog and desktop groups, how to install it with a pure Windows environment.
Linux Virtual desktop works with all supported hypervisors for XenDesktop XenServer, Hyper-V or vSphere. In fact, Citrix XenServer has recently released 6.5 , support for RHEL and SLES Linux templates created.
now you can use applications like LibreOffice, Firefox, Eclipse OpenOffice, Gimp, etc. inside the Linux Virtual Desktop alongside the Microsoft Windows applications delivered all Citrix Receiver on your device.
thanks again for your response to our for tech preview invite. We look forward to your feedback with more to come in the future!
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