Aquarium is a FREE Open-Source web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Linux based systems.
Doublefish Solutions Aquarium had been earlier commercial and proprietary close-source solution, but now made free and open-source.
For example,
Gnome, KDE are traditionally Open-Source Window managers of Linux systems. They are desktop environments / graphical user interface that runs on top of a Linux based systems. These solutions works on the same host system locally.
But unlike these window managers Doublefish Solutions - Aquarium is a Commercial web-based graphical-user-interface which executes (or can be installed) remotely in a SaaS based on-line servers or in the same host system, and can be accessed via its supported browser(s).
But why web-based Graphical-User-Interface (GUI) ?
Without a web-based GUI, the only way you can remotely access your Linux-based systems is via CLI based SSH-Sessions or GUI desktop access via remote-desktop connectivity solutions (something like VNC access). The dis-advantage of any remote-desktop access is quite obvious that eventually it eventually transmits sequence of mouse-positions, window images and makes it appear that as if you are directly accessing the remote system in most cases. Where are some remote-desktop connectivity solutions offer much more per-window based graphical optimized interfaces. In all cases a remote-desktop access has certain limitations, limitations in-terms of extensive network bandwidth consumption, desktop refresh limitations and so on. But a web-based GUI like Doublefish Solutions - Aquarium offers a kind of unique high-speed connectivity, which is highly targeted for professional remote-desktop access via UNIFIED - Aquarium GUI. This makes the end-user feel that they can use or access the Linux systems remotely with a complete new abstraction of the GUI !
How Aquarium is optimized ?
Aquarium can be installed either in the same host-Linux machine, or can be installed in other local-Linux machine and can access any number of remotely connected Linux machines.
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| Fig: Installed per-remote-system | Locally installed in one system to access multiple remote-systems |
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| Fig: Remotely installed in one system to access multiple remote-systems |
Doublefish Solutions - Aquarium License:
DOUBLEFISH SOLUTIONS - AQUARIUM provides dual licenses, designed to meet the usage and distribution requirements of different types of users.
GPLv2 License:
Copyright (C) (2011) Kiran Kankipati - Doublefish Solutions
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