Web based Operating System - EyeOS

[papangul]

This experience is new. You can create an account very easily to check it yourself - http://www.eyeos.info/. First change the default theme by clicking on the 'options' tab( otherwise it will cause a hangover).

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8033/screenshot8go.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot8go.jpg)

Edit: This is a new born baby. If you expect it to be like a gorgeous blonde you will be shocked. ;) .

[bjweeks]

Its cool but old and I don't like it...

Edit: this is cool alot better than the stock eyeos..

[papangul]

Its cool but old and I don't like it...
There is no question of liking it as it is now, but it holds promise for future, a Tablet PC or any device with just a browser + GoogleOS or EyeOS + ubiquitous internet = not bad.

[Jucato]

But what would be the advantages of this kind of OS, versus just storing your files over the net? And what about security?

This really looks interesting. Plus, it's open source! :D

EDIT: I wonder how Google feels about this. It seems that they are on the path towards this kind of online-OS. But now that someone else is doing it...

[bjweeks]

There is no question of liking it as it is now, but it holds promise for future, a Tablet PC or any device with just a browser + GoogleOS or EyeOS + ubiquitous internet = not bad.

One word AJAX...

[Iandefor]

Why would I use this? There are google ads embedded in the UI. But aside from that, looks interesting.

[chimera]

Looks good, although I don't see why I'd need it.

[Slugger]

Quack Quack

[chimera]

Quack Quack

http://www.semp.us/biots/images/Biot149PhotoE.jpg

[bjweeks]

http://diseyes.lycaeum.org/teo/syringe.jpg

[Slugger]

Ouch

[bjweeks]

Ouch

*cough*what?*cough*

[Slugger]

Hey Doc, where does that *scream* OUCH */scream* go

[bjweeks]

The thread has beed officially hijacked!

[Slugger]

Thanks to bjweeks

[chimera]

This thread has been seriously derailed, return back on-topic please:mrgreen:

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0101/graphics/dtn1.jpg

[bjweeks]

This thread has been seriously derailed, return back on-topic please:mrgreen:

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0101/graphics/dtn1.jpg

LOL

[Jucato]

But seriously, going back to the topic, would people really use this? This seems to be becoming a trend, at least with online office suites and PIMs. Microsoft has it's Live. Google has GMail which now has an IM and (if the leaked news is true) planning to include a calendar for it. Plus Google is also acquiring Writely, the online word processor. But with security issues, would people prefer to use these, much more an online OS?

[chimera]

I'll always prefer the HD sitting nicely in the rig ~50cm avay from my face to the one on the other side on the world. The first beats the later in speed(HD read/write speed vs. network connection speed), privacy(how do I know google/eyeOS team isn't reading everything I write on their server?), security(how do I know that file on their server I deleted really is dleted and not just archived and sent to FBI for analisys before they can confirm it's safe to delete?), size(2,5gb at gmail vs. 300gb at home) and avilibility(hey, you don't need a network connection to boot from your HD).

[Sirin]

Aw man, not this again... :rolleyes:

An operating system that can't play movies is NO operating system. ;)

But it really is a good effort at AJAX + PHP + SQL + CSS + HTML. :)

[chimera]

Aw man, not this again... :rolleyes:

An operating system that can't play movies is NO operating system. ;)

But it really is a good effort at AJAX + PHP + SQL + CSS + HTML. :)

hint: a self-acclaimed "OS" that runs from your internet browser (and doesn't like epiphany) and has a grand total of less than 20 (built-in) apps is...NO OS:mrgreen:

[papangul]

An operating system that can't play movies is NO operating system. ;)
You took the name too seriously. It's just a virtual desktop system. Still it has a system of storing and playing audio files(hint:support from your 'real' OS is needed to play those). It will not be long before the capacity to store and play movies is added to it. Why do you thing google is heading towards 'infinite storage' - to store email? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=121

[fuscia]

i can't even force myself to read about it. someone give me the 3word version.

[chimera]

i can't even force myself to read about it. someone give me the 3word version.

sucks
very
hard

:mrgreen:

[fuscia]

sucks
very
hard

:mrgreen:

tl/dr

[papangul]

Folks how's this idea - if a livecd, say the Ubuntu liveCD is integrated with a EyeOS like thingy as kind of a backend how will it be?

[Wallakoala]

You can do a really cool thing with this. If you go into the web browser, and then go to the EyeOs site, you can have the os within a browser within a browser. You can keep doing this, until you have the operating system running within a browser, which is running within a browser, which is running within a browser...etc.

[Jucato]

And that would be good...how? Besides being a "cool" thing, it will probably drain your system's resources and clog up some bandwidth.

Maybe I just don't get all this online word processing, online office suite, online OS thing. :D

[Sirin]

I wonder if Microsoft will steal this and make the "Windows Live Desktop"? :rolleyes:

[Jucato]

I wonder if Microsoft will steal this and make the "Windows Live Desktop"? :rolleyes:

Do you think they haven't already? :p

[Minyaliel]

I seriously like this thing. It means I can copy my files over on EyeOS and open them at a school computer (don't have wireless networks at my school, and it honestly wouldn't do any ood anyway since Ubuntu won't recognize my WLAN card :P) and edit them there. Then I can easily enough open it on my laptop when I get home and finish the assignment before copying it down on open office and make it a pdf and burn it on a disc. Saves me time, that. Love it :)

[Jucato]

Given that you would trust them with the storage of your files. But anyway, I guess it would also depend on what document format they would support (btw, I don't know if they have a word/text processor app included).

But wouldn't you think that creating/editing those files locally on your computer then uploading/downloading them as needed is equally efficient, and less resource extensive? I'm not sure how these things work, but I think that having an online app in a web browser would take up more bandwidth or resources. I guess it would be like running a Java app. But again, I haven't tried out this kind of technology yet. I guess I could try Writely (http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm), tthe online word process, which is now (just recently) owned by Google, moving Google one step closer to an online OS or productivity suite of their own. (Look who's giving MS a run for its money :D)

[papangul]

I seriously like this thing. It means I can copy my files over on EyeOS and open them at a school computer (don't have wireless networks at my school, and it honestly wouldn't do any ood anyway since Ubuntu won't recognize my WLAN card :P) and edit them there. Then I can easily enough open it on my laptop when I get home and finish the assignment before copying it down on open office and make it a pdf and burn it on a disc. Saves me time, that. Love it :)
Hey, check this out: https://goffice.com/ or http://online.thinkfree.com/index.jsp. They both have the export to pdf feature.

[Sirin]

Hey, check this out: https://goffice.com/ or http://online.thinkfree.com/index.jsp. They both have the export to pdf feature.

Or the official Adobe one: http://createpdf.adobe.com/ :p

[K.Mandla]

Looks like the eyeOS stuff is getting better.

[K.Mandla]

EDIT: Hmm, mysterious double post.

[briancurtin]

maybe its just me, but i think this is stupid.

[jason.b.c]

:rolleyes: Ok looking desktop, http://www.eyeos.org/Screenshots , but really really ugly T-shirts..![-(

[papangul]

maybe its just me, but i think this is stupid.
Wait till MS take it over, make it closed source and integrate with windows, people will start to think that it is a conspiracy by satan to take over the planet. ;)

[Compucore]

Why does this web base version reminds me of Citrix so much. Except that this is web based and Citrix is a thin client. Not to knock it down in a bad way just that it reminds me of Citrix.

[3rdalbum]

I've tried it out, and I'm quite impressed with it.

Dunno what an earlier poster meant about Epiphany - EyeOS works fine with Epiphany. One or two bugs, nothing major.

The word-processing format EyeWrite uses is actually HTML, which I was also quite impressed with. You need one of those browsers that can do the formatting, of course, but that's no huhu - it's just like Writely.

EyeOS isn't something I need, but it's potentially very useful when running on a school network or something like that. In a way, it's like having your computer's settings and files wherever you have a computer.

[ixus_123]

If I had to work on different computers I'd much rather use a USB based flash solution - either for transporting my documents, /home, or even just have the whole OS on like a version of Damn Small Linux or Puppy.

Maybe even something like iFolder


I'm not a fan of applications that run from within a web browser - it just seems like one more link in the chain that can break

[K.Mandla]

EyeOS isn't something I need, but it's potentially very useful when running on a school network or something like that. In a way, it's like having your computer's settings and files wherever you have a computer.
I'm of the same mind. It's not anything I need, but it's a nifty idea that I'll keep in the back of my head for that time when it IS something I need. :mrgreen:

[Nonno Bassotto]

Well, I run a web server just to do some PHP with my personal home page, so it is nice to find something to run on it.

I always use pitchfork, a frontend for mpd, to manage my music, and now I tried thie eyeOS thing. Not useful, really, but quite impressive nonetheless.

It would be nice if you could install a webserver on eyeOS, then another copy of eyeOS on it and so on...

[n3tfury]

what does an app like this do with your passwords for say, gmail accounts? security worries me a bit about these web OS's.

[Nonno Bassotto]

I hope nothing, since I just run it locally on my web server...

[kopinux]

we may never know its potential in the near future, but its better to know an opensource project is covering that area. if that opportunity arises, 'its better we already have it (the technology) than okay will start it over tomorrow'. reminds me of reactOS. openmoko(mobile phone), openpino(robotics).

all will be benefited in due time.