Ulteo is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 Virtual Desktop infrastructure project based on a GNU/Linux. It was created by Gaël Duval

Gaël Duval

Gaël Duval is a graduate of the Caen University in France, where he studied networks and documentary applications. In July 1998, he created Mandrake Linux , a Linux distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux and KDE...

, who previously created Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux is a Linux distribution distributed by Mandriva. It uses the RPM Package Manager...

.

Ulteo is based on Debian

Debian

Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...

 and Ubuntu

Ubuntu (operating system)

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...

. The virtual desktop

Virtual desktop

In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the size of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's real estate through the use of software, This saves space...

 feature allows users to run Linux applications from Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. The Open Virtual Desktop allows corporates to deploy virtualized GNU/Linux and/or Windows desktops.

Reception

An Infoworld

InfoWorld

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review stated that Ulteo "is impressive and offers more in the features of the applications than Google Docs".

Further reading

• Budzoń, Paulina. "Ulteo — My digital life made simple"
• Sheinberg, Brian. "Ulteo Virtual Desktop: Letting Linux Do Windows"
• Shoemaker, Kristin. "Ulteo releases Linux desktop; bent on world domination"