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This idea has been padded out quite a bit more and renamed TKL Client which entails a whole lot more than just a desktop appliance. It is more a range of GUI based appliances (ie clients rather than servers). It is not limited to a simple Desktop appliance, but obviously could, and ideally would have such an appliance as part of the range. Below is the idea as originally floated 04/2010.
A light Desktop type appliance specifically designed for portability and customisation (with whichever tools you want). As suggested by David in this post: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/ge...e#comment-2585
Probably aimed at development and/or support work?
Someone please elaborate more....
The Developer Desktop Use Case:
As a software developer, we all have a favorite operating system (eg ubuntu :), window manager (gnome) and set of tools and compilers (emacs, gcc, javac ) etc...
When need to work in multiple sites or, heaven forbid, work at home. When we move around, we keep having to synchronise our tools and data. Even worse, if ubuntu is our favorite desktop at home and we work in Windows desktop shop, we are miserable all day long.
If you could download a TKL Desktop Appliance with a sort of bootstrap desktop. Then personalise it a bit. After savig it as a VMware image you could carry it around on a usb stick or pocket drive and have the same environment where ever you work so long as you have vmware player.
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