Click2try : Test Open Source Software Online Without Installation
Want to try different open source software to choose the best? Want to try Linux distributions before moving from Windows? Click2try is the answer to your needs. It’s a community powered web service which hosts many open source applications and software. All you need is compatible browser and latest Java version. Let’s see how the need arise to have such a service. Sometime back I wanted to try Ubuntu linux on my machine. I wanted to use it for development work. One option was to use virtual machine software like VirtualBox to test Ubuntu on that. But that will need me to download VirtialBox as well as latest Ubuntu edition. Setting up them both on machine can be headache for novice users. You might also land into glitches and unnecessary complications while doing so. So I dropped that idea for time being. But while surfing the web I encountered Click2Try and bingo, everything was there – I wanted to test – without any hassle and just a click away.
I tried two software on click2try, one is every blogger’s favorite WordPress and other is Ubuntu linux. While wordpress didn’t need any user account on click2try, to use Ubuntu I had to sign up and use those credentials to login to Ubuntu desktop. You can try any application for an hour without signing up. If you want longer sessions, you can sign up for free account which gives you 4 hours of trial time over 7 days – whichever comes first. I think it’s worth signing up. There are around 60 open source software and applications divided in different categories which you browse in their catalog. That includes 3 linux distributions named Centos, openSUSE and Ubuntu Desktop. Below are some screen captures.
Checking wordpress dashboard in browser!
How the wordpress blog look like in real.
Ubuntu Linux desktop
This blog in Firefox in Ubuntu desktop
Some good features of Click2try,
- Hosted software and applications
- No downloads or setups
- Eliminates hardware purchases and software licensing issues.
- Easy software evaluation and selection
- Powerful community
- Decent free option
- Cool!!
Give a Click2try!
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