What is Alterdesk?
Alterdesk is an open-source and free alternative to proprietary solutions like Citrix Workspace and VMware Horizon. It provides a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that allows users to access virtualized Windows or Linux desktop environments and applications through a web browser or dedicated clients.
Some key features of Alterdesk include:
- Ability to create pools of virtual machines that users can access on-demand
- Broker that manages user connections and load balancing
- Clients for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, HTML5
- High definition multimedia and graphics support
- Universal printing and scanning
- Integration with Active Directory, LDAP, SAML
- Load balancing and high-availability configurations
As an open platform, Alterdesk is highly customizable and extensible to meet the needs of enterprises. It can scale to support large deployments with thousands of users. Performance and graphics support is good thanks to built-in caching and optimization technologies.
Overall, Alterdesk represents a free yet very capable alternative to commercial VDI solutions for small to large organizations. With its focus on open platforms, it avoids vendor lock-in issues associated with proprietary products like Citrix and VMware.