As the eyeOS French Blog already posted, the great French publication at Internet about technology, Clubic, has written a review of the Web Operating Systems panorama, and which is a very good read.
The article is called “OS en ligne : dĂ©couverte de trois bureaux virtuels” or “OS online: discovery of three virtual desktops“, and you can read the original article in french here and a english translation from Google here.
Thanks, Clubic!
The eyeOS Developers Community has been evolving since the first days at eyeOS. Nowadays, a developer that discovers eyeOS has a wide variety of resources to get introduced to the eyeOS applications development, communicate with other developers, publish ideas and bugs, etc.
Today, a new user asked for help in the Spanish forum about what should he/she do to start programming new applications for eyeOS, and Jose Carlos Norte answered with a small but great summary of almost everything available for new developers:
The eyeOS Developers Community Start-Page. The initial point for every developer, with a summary of all available resources. Available in many different languages (talk with Lars K. if you would like to translate the websites to your language!). Direct links to the eyeOS Developer Manual, the Getting Started guide…
The eyeOS Documentation Center. For those developers who have already read the Developer Manual and are already programming or starting to program eyeOS Applications. It’s really useful when you need to know which parameters should be passed to a widget, how to use a library or service…
The eyeOS Developers Mailing List, specially good when help is needed or when we’re stacked programming some application. Also useful for suggestions inside the eyeOS code, how to prepare new releases…
Finally, the Launchpad Resources. Mainly: Bugs and Blueprints. Useful to report and track open bugs that could be solved (some developers send patches to the mailing list with possible solutions or workarounds for open bugs), and to see or send new ideas about eyeOS and applications that could be developed.
As you can see, there is no reason for not starting today to program eyeOS Applications 
It has been more than two years since that first post, where we announced that eyeOS had 5.000 users. That was amazing.
Today there are more than 265.000 users in the eyeOS Free Server, and more than 300.000 downloads in almost 3 years of project (we’ll be celebrating eyeOS 3rd anniversary in August 1st, 2008). And this is more amazing than ever.
During the first months of the blog, we used it as a tool to spread the new releases. Now we are starting a new step to spread the eyeOS Community creations and inventions, reviews of eyeOS Applications, discussions about the roadmaps and polls to discover what should the next eyeOS versions focus on.
So, if you have not done it before, subscribe to the eyeOS blog and stay tunned for something cool every week around your favorite Web Operating System
We hope you will be there for the next 100 posts.
Mathieu Terrasson (mterrasson in the forums) has started a serie of posts explaining, step by step, how to build and prepare a diskless thinclient for eyeOS.
In 4 different posts, the author explains how to prepare the environment, the pre-build time, the build time and some last considerations, being a great guide for those who would like to use just eyeOS in a network.
As the author says in the post,
I’ve worked on an OpenSource project that aims to create thinclient that should be used to access LAN or WAN eyeOS server. The thinclient will automaticaly run a firefox browser that will open a full screen page on a Eyeos url.
If you have any questions, suggestions or improvements you can use the topic with the tutorial to discuss it with its author.
At May 28th a post in a personal blog appeared announcing a new application for eyeOS. Less than two monts after that, the h3o eyeOS Apps have been growing and we can enjoy now 10 eyeOS Applications from Thorsten Zoerner, the creator of h3o.
h3oWiki (to have a lightweight wiki inside your eyeOS), h3oEyeAppsInstaller (to directly install apps from eyeOS-Apps.org), h3oSSH (to connect to servers through SSH) and h3oUpload (to upload files directly from your OS Desktop with drag and drop) are some examples of the eyeOS Applications created by h3o.
We recently read that there have been more than 1.000 downloads of the h3o apps, and we would like to encourage every eyeOS sysadmin to download and install some of the apps in their systems, and to keep an eye on the h3o blog for the future ones.
The third mantainance release for eyeOS 1.6 has been released, and can be downloaded from the eyeOS Downloads Page. For those users using the eyeOS Free Server, it’s already running the new version, so just log in!
This new version includes full compatibility with Firefox 3.0 and many minor bug fixes in services, libraries and applications. It does not include any security fix, but it’s recommended to all eyeOS system administrators.
Once again, we must thank the eyeOS Development Community, which is getting involucrated into every new eyeOS release, mainly through the eyeOS Development Mailing List, which is becoming more active every day.
To see the full change log, please continue reading.
Changes since 1.6.0.2:
As the first post of a new serie (Applications from Community) we want to review eyeShow, a great application created by Edouard Daubin and using Slimey, to create and view presentations in eyeOS.
This application is fully integrated with the eyeOS Filesystem and dialogs and will let you load and save your presentations from inside eyeOS.
From its website:
eyeShow is a presentation application where you can make slides, with texts, colorize your text, change the size, the font, the style. You can add cliparts form an external repository or form eyeOS, add lists, bring front, bring back …The Clipart Repository is based on a xml feed, the Clipart application can must customized to offer clipart to eyeDocs and more.
eyeShow has a post in the eyeOS Forums where you can make suggestions and discuss the application here.
Few weeks after the release of Firefox 3, we are happy to announce that the next version of eyeOS will feature full support for this browser, after solving some bugs in certain parts of the system that prevented eyeOS from showing well.
Some of these bugs were reported by users of our community in our Launchpad platform, and we want to thank them for helping us detecting and solving the bugs: thank you very much!
This maintenance version, eyeOS 1.6.0.3, will fully support Firefox 3, as well as fixing other bugs in the system, making this version more and more stable.
We must remember that we want to keep the eyeOS 1.6 version as solid and stable as possible, and we will be releasing a maintenance release about every month. Stay tuned to download this release soon!
We are really proud to be this year again in the SourceForge Community Choice Awards finalists, in the Most Like to Change the World project category.
Once again, and we will never get tired of saying this, thanks to everybody who makes this possible. Voting is open, with both a Sourceforge account or an OpenID account, and everybody can take part and decide who will be the project most likely to change the world!
We’re happy to announce a new partnership with GMV, which will deliver new and exciting projects based on the Open Knowledge, by joining the experience and expertise from GMV and the Open Source eyeOS Web Desktop Platform to provide enterprise-ready Web Desktop Solutions, expanding the eyeOS usage worldwide.
GMV is a technological enterprise group with an international presence which operates in nine large sectors: Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies for public and private organizations. You can read more about GMV in this document [PDF, 1.5MB, 24p].
We would like to thank the whole GMV team (with a special effort on the SGI -Global Internet Solutions- part of the company) who has trusted the eyeOS platform since its begginings and is now entering a new step in the Web Desktop Solutions, with our team.
All the benefits derived from this new partnership will be noticeable from the eyeOS Open Source Platform and the eyeOS Community, starting with some public events late 2008 that will be announced this summer.
If you are in Spain during June, you will have some opportunities to discover eyeOS and the eyeOS Team point of view concerning Web Operating Systems and Open Source software in the following (free) events/conferences:
-Suscipe Enterpeneurs Forum (in Madrid), on June 4th, to present the project, its history and future. You can confirm the assistance in this page.
-The Coffee Break 2008 (in Cáceres) on June 13th and 14th.
And possibly, another one on June 26th in Ourense (still to be confirmed). We’ll soon confirm this last one and publish some other events during July, in Spain.
One month after the eyeOS 1.6 release, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first maintenance release to the 1.6 branch: eyeOS 1.6.0.1.
This particular release doesn’t contain any security fix, but it’s recommended to all eyeOS system administrators to update, since it contains important bugfixes and small new features, such as the Internet Explorer 6 support, the import and export (with OPML format) in eyeFeeds or the new session language selection in the Login Screen.
You can download the new release from the downloads page and view the full changelog in the Developer’s center.
On the other hand, the eyeOS Project reached yesterday 300.000 downloads from the SourceForge servers. This is a good moment to say thanks to SourceForge for the great service they provide to eyeOS and more than 170.000 other projects.
We are proud to announce the availability of eyeSync, the eyeOS Synchronization Tool, for Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP and Vista.
It’s a portable application, and all you need to do to get it running is to uncompress it somewhere in your system (or even inside a Pendrive) and launch eyeSync. The first time you launch it, it will ask you to configure your account (from Preferences). If you want to use it with the Public Server, just put www.eyeos.info in the Server field, and your username/password in the other fields.
You can download it from here and from the Downloads page.
You can add folders form your system to keep synchronized with your eyeOS by pressing Add Folder and choosing the local folder you want to keep synchronized with your eyeOS, and the eyeOS folder you want the contents to go to. Please note that the eyeOS folder must exist, and it must be empty.
When you add a folder, its content will start to synchronize and you can open your eyeOS session and check that your local contents are being imported. Note that the system will detect every change you do on the synchronized folders (such as file edits).
It’s an early version and feedback will be appreciated on the eyeOS Forums.
To see eyeOS widely used by scientists all around the world, a group of eyeOS users and developers, leaded by Alexandre Mejat, has initiated the eyeLIMS project. eyeLIMS is a community-driven project which aims at providing a Free Open Source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) powered by eyeOS.
The eyeLIMS community will develop new eyeOS applications or port to eyeOS existing free open source applications specifically dedicated to molecular and cellular biology.
The eyeLIMS Software Suite will include a set of eyeOS applications dedicated to common activities in research laboratories such as managing samples or reagents (eyeStorage), managing bibliographic references (eyeBiblio) or manipulating data (eyeJmol).
The whole project is Free and Open Source and will be released under GNU Affero GPL v.3 license (the same as eyeOS). If you would like to collaborate with the project or you are interested in following its development, you can check the project’s homepage and its discussion board.
The eyeOS Team and eyeOS Community are proud to announce the immediate availability of eyeOS 1.6 Gala Sync. This new major release, which has been centered entirely to improve the user experience at eyeOS, includes new applications, significant improvements on the overall usability and new tools to develop better applications, faster.
The new eyeOS 1.6 Desktop includes major improvements such as Drag and Drop between folders and groups, new widgets that can be launched from Accessories menu and a common actions bar, with some overall improvements on its design and functionality.
The new Gala Sync version also includes new applications such as the new eyeFeeds to read RSS sources, the new Text Editor with syntax highlighting for the most common programming languages and autocomplete features, an integrated IDE (only launchable from root user) called eyeCode and some new Games and Tools such as eyeTetravex (a math game with a system highscores system) or the new Calculator.
The system part from eyeOS 1.6 has been also improved: Developers have new base libraries to make apps that communicate beween them and create virtual work groups, lots of small fixes on the eyeOS Toolkit Widgets and the new XML-RPC system , which is the base for the syncronization, and allows the creation of desktop applications which communicate with eyeOS.
Probably the most important feature of this release is the ability to create desktop apps that communicate eyeOS with the local computer where the user is in every moment, and the release of eyeSync (the first app to use this technology in eyeOS).
The syncronization tool for eyeOS, called eyeSync, will be an official app but will have its own versioning. The 0.1 version of eyeSync, which allows to syncronize automatically and transparently different folders from the system will be available today for Mac OS X (Tiger/PPC and Leopard/Intel) and Linux (in deb and source/targz), and during the next week for Windows XP and Vista.
eyeSync will keep the folders you indicate always synchronized with your eyeOS account without requiring any action from you: eyeSync will detect every change you do on those folders (copying/removing some files, saving or updating some documents…) and synchronize them with your eyeOS desktop, transparently and automatically.
You can download eyeSync and the new eyeOS version from the eyeOS Downloads page.
The first time you run eyeSync you will have to configure it by putting your server’s URL ( that can be the public server one, http://www.eyeos.info or your own local or remote eyeOS Server) and your username and password. Nothing special must be installed in the server, and all the data is transfered via the port 80, so you won’t encounter problems with local proxies when using it.
As usually, if you want to use the new eyeOS 1.6 version you can do it from the Public Server, which has been already updated to eyeOS 1.6, or downloading and installing to your local server. eyeOS is Open Source Software, released under the Affero GNU Public License (AGPL) version 3.
The development of this version has been done from its first days together with the eyeOS Community. From posts on the Forums regarding the new features that eyeOS 1.6 should had, the continoued contributions and suggestions to the Development Mailing lists, and a really intensive bug reporting during all the beta period.
This has been possible thanks to the more than 1.000 registered users in the Beta server, that will be closed later today.
Thanks!
It’s a bit early to say, but we can announce that the next eyeOS version won’t start by “1″, and will introduce a new eyeOS Toolkit, but always mantaining compatibility with eyeOS Toolkit 1.
We’ll be doing the announcement of the new version Roadmap and plans very soon, after the publication of the stable versions of eyeSync for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Stay tuned!
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of eyeOS 1.6.0.0 Beta, which is the result of months of work from the eyeOS Team and eyeOS Community on both the eyeOS Platform and base Applications.
The new eyeOS 1.6 version also includes everything planned on the Global Roadmap plus some new features which were not asigned to a particular release, but have been finally created for eyeOS 1.6.
There are still 10 days before the final release, and some testing would be really appreciated. Now it’s the best moment to report bugs through the Bugs reporting tool or in the Bugs mailing list.
Everybody can test the new eyeOS 1.6 release extensively from the Beta server (you must create a new account first), which is located at beta.eyeos.info.
You can also download the eyeOS 1.6.0.0 Beta Release from here. Please keep in mind that this is a package without installer, so it doesn’t include some security features such as the randomization of the whole eyeOS system folder or the generation of the root password during install. Please do not use it on production systems.
Username/password for the package are root/root, and you should give the package the sufficient permissions for your system to make the web server able to run, read and write into it.
Please note that XML-RPC (the server part for the synchronization) is already bundled with eyeOS 1.6, but that eyeSync 1.0 for Windows, Linux and Mac will be released with the final version of eyeOS 1.6.
To discover what eyeOS 1.6 includes, you may want to read this blog post, plus all this features which have been finally added:
Drag and Drop: eyeOS API finally has a D&D system. This means that you can just move your files between folders, to the desktop, to the trash… by just dragging and dropping them to the correct place!
eyeFeeds: The new feeds reader (formerly known as eyeRSS) provides a completely rewritten interface, which makes much more easier to store and get your favorite feeds inside eyeOS. It does provide automatic link opening in eyeNav, integrated preview panel, tree-organization with folders and subfolders. It’s the first big contribution from AnaĂ«l Ollier since he’s on the eyeOffice at Barcelona, so wait for more eyecandy applications during next releases ;-).
miniActions widget: This new widget that comes preloaded with the new eyeOS 1.6 version on the desktop and links common actions on the system in an easy and intuitive way.
eyeNotes: eyeNotes has been integrated with CodePress and features syntax highlighting for the most common programming languages (including .eyecode!).
eyeCode: This new application, only available if you are root, will allow you to modify all the eyeOS applications, libraries, services and kernel from inside eyeOS. This is the first part of eyeDesigner, which was planned on eyeOS 1.0, and allows you to create eyeApps in a comfortable way, within eyeOS.
Small changes here and there: The new Info Screen (yes, doowee comes back from eyeOS 0.x), some design improvements over the whole desktop, a completely rewritten and redesigned calculator, optimization of all the images inside eyeOS and much more.
Anaël Ollier (nanawel), a very active eyeOS Community Developer who has already added code to the main development branch (with eyeFTP, soon with eyeTetravex and lots of system fixes) has joined us in the eyeOS main Office at Barcelona, Spain, for the next five months.
Welcome Anaël!
“La Factoria d’Imatge” (the image factory, in catalan) is a leading visual communication company that will be improving the global project image for eyeOS, introducing new videos to show and communicate its concept in a better way.
During the next weeks, and specially after the eyeOS 1.6 release, you will be discovering a new way to present the eyeOS concept and idea, thanks to La Factoria!
Note: This is the first post of a new serie of eyeOS Professional Apps created or ported by companies around the world. You can read all the posts with the Pro Apps Category page from this blog.
eyeWIRIS is a CAS (Computer Algebra System) that also includes a DGS (Dynamic Geometry System) inside. You can access a powerful calculation toolbar that includes integrals and limits calculation, function graphing in 2D or 3D and symbolic matrices manipulation. It covers all mathematical topics from primary school to University level (Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Algebra).
It’s also a great example of a Professional Application from Maths for More made in Java and ported (the good way) to eyeOS, with a full integration between the app and the eyeOS Toolkit and eyeOS filesystem: You can save and use your calculations from eyeWIRIS and eyeOS.
It’s free for personal use, and you can create 2D and 3D graphics using the company’s servers for free too.
You can use this app from your account from the eyeOS Public Server, or downloading it to your eyeOS server from its eyeOS-Apps page.
eyeOS has been selected as one of the Finalists for the CNET’s Webware 2008, under the Browsing category. It’s such a honor for us to be competing with Microsoft, Google and some other big companies. You can vote for eyeOS at the following link:
The voting process does end on monday’s noon, so be fast on voting!
One more time, thanks for being such a great community.