tallero/gnucolab

A persistent Google Colab notebook that lets you run a full GNU desktop.

GNU Colab

In here we set an environment in which you can persistently run desktop programs.

This notebook lets you run desktop programs on colab machines drawn on your local terminal through VNC.

To be more precise, this notebook sets up a regular remote personal computer, with users and configurations preserved even when the machine turns off.

Actually, an instance on which this notebook has been run has become capable of editing itself, so you can even use it to avoid having machines dying of idling.

At this moment, the notebook is pre-configured to run either MATE or XFCE.

Donate

This notebook is provided under the AGPL license v3 or later.

You can donate money to the project through

• Paypal,
• DOGE (at this address)
• Ethereum mining (just execute the donate cell in the notebook).

gnucolab's Issues

Is this still being actively worked on?

I had some issues but im not sure if this is still being actively worked on to ask

want nomachine support

vnc is slow and want nomachine option along with vnc, hope you will implement nomachine option in future.
thanks in advance.

ngrok support

As suggested by @genvara.

Add Google Remote Desktop

i think this https://remotedesktop.google.com/headless

Google Colab's terms of use

According to Google Colab's Frequently Asked Questions, remote control such as SSH shells, remote desktops, remote UIs are forbidden.
If Google removes accounts of people who install and use a VNC server, perhaps a warning about the terms of use in the Readme could be added.

some more issues

Again, this notebook is running at default settings.

Running the "Simple Keep Alive" cell at the "Persistence" section of the notebook would keep running and won't execute successfully, will keep spamming "Error: Can't open display: (null) Failed creating new xdo instance" (had to manually interrupt to stop it)

The "Restore" cell looks like it runs successfully, but it doesn't? it outputs "No such file or directory" so i don't think it's running correctly? maybe im wrong.

Oh, and this just doesn't work lol

This also doesn't work

The "Connect" cell also doesn't work, reverse proxy is disabled.

Here is the "Connect" cell config:

And here's some suggestions:

• I recommend trying to implement pyngrok as a way to connect to the notebook (https://github.com/alexdlaird/pyngrok)
• I also recommend removing the ethminer cell from this notebook, it could get you banned, putting your wallet address is enough.

Notebook not working.

This notebook does not work, at least for me, i haven't touched any of the settings, so it's the default preset.
When starting the notebook, it will create a user and mount gdrive, however when it reaches the Connection section of the notebook, it will crash on the Connect cell, with this error

When setting "new" in the "If this is your first setup, select new:" option, it will crash with this error: