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The current trend of computing paradigm is heading toward the pervasive computing. Nevertheless, with the rapid advancements in hardware, software, and network, the desktop computing will still prevail in the next decade. In light of this, this paper designed and implemented a platform for hosting desktop computing in a network environment, namely, GTCOM. GTCOM can transparently provide a full functionality as a desktop computer and allow computing services including operating systems to be acquired and utilized ondemand from the server. Since all management tasks are centralized on the server, GTCOM can provide user-needed services through zero-managed clients. We implemented a prototype system based on Godson-2 platform. The experimental results demonstrate only negligible overhead is induced which shows feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.