how cool is this :D :D (eyeos)

[delfick]

http://www.eyeos.org/

that's awsome ! :D

[abraxas]

That's nothing too new. Google has had the idea for quite some time now - but I don't like it. I'm quite concerned about privacy and it seems this one here is a hacker's paradise. I would not try to make any financial transactions with it...

And it still needs another OS to run on when ran remotely... But maybe this is the future of Operating Systems. Let's hope not.

Btw.: did you see him logging in as root with a five-letter-passwd in the `about'-video? That made me shiver...

[delfick]

lol

the parranoia......unless you'd have something to hide ?? :D (mind you i'd only use such a thing for unimportant files (nothing like tax file numbers, bank stuff, etc or paid work, etc) but for everything else...*shrug* then it becomes parannoia :P)

[quote:0ea75]And it still needs another OS to run on when ran remotely...[/quote:0ea75]

true, though maybe one day it won't......

[quote:0ea75] But maybe this is the future of Operating Systems. Let's hope not.[/quote:0ea75]

if that happened (which it won't, that's just a funny thought) it'd be because it was superior and a lot of people would be using it.........

[quote:0ea75]Btw.: did you see him logging in as root with a five-letter-passwd in the `about'-video? That made me shiver...[/quote:0ea75]

hahahahhaa.....would you rather wait for a minute while he types in the pass-paragraph ?? :D :D lol



(also, i don't think this is too useful, just cool :D (useful is google's apps like docs, reader, gmail, notebook, etc, etc (especially when you have a really really really slow thumbdrive like me and can't be bothered getting another one)....

:D

[Deciare]

I have something to hide! Please don't crack my 50+-character mixed case/numeric/symbolic password! http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/Deciare/emoticons/icon_gonk.gif

Anyway, I already do something like this with PuTTY and ssh, though eyeOS is certainly a more visual solution. I can imagine this being extremely convenient for people who use their computers mainly for office work and contact management.

But for more sophisticated tasks, such as graphic design, technical modelling, and multimedia playback (without relying on an external, host OS), the upload bandwidth of an average residential Internet connection may be limiting...

Still, though, there are lots of applications that would benefit from having a multi-user graphical system that can be accessed anywhere. My employer, for example, currently hosts its ERP software on a Citrix Metaframe server on a Windows NT 4.0 host. It's a slow, sometimes unreliable, and difficult-to-maintain solution that requires lots of expensive software to be installed on both the server and clients. If an entire system like that can be hosted on eyeOS and accessed from any Web browser, I can see that being much simpler to maintain and potentially more stable, since the OS would be designed specifically for that purpose. File and data sharing would be greatly simplified, too, since all the information would be stored on the same physical server(s) instead of being scattered all across different parts of the company network and client hard drives.

[searayman]

i was trying to set this up and noticed i needed a server. SO i hav an exrta laptop lyign aroudn and decided i want to make it a server, can i do that for free and sey up eye os on it?

if soo how?

[delfick]

i was trying to set this up and noticed i needed a server. SO i hav an exrta laptop lyign aroudn and decided i want to make it a server, can i do that for free and sey up eye os on it?

if soo how?

there is this http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_eyeos_debian_etch :D

[searayman]

i was trying to set this up and noticed i needed a server. SO i hav an exrta laptop lyign aroudn and decided i want to make it a server, can i do that for free and sey up eye os on it?

if soo how?

there is this http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_eyeos_debian_etch :D


i saw that but would i put in for my hostname?

[delfick]

good question, i want to know as well :D :P

[Vodkaneat]

good question, i want to know as well :D :P

You could use a DNS service like no-ip ([url:f4d65]http://www.no-ip.com[/url:f4d65]).

[jvhellraiser]

What i would like to know why do i need this for?

[Deciare]

What i would like to know why do i need this for?

Look back (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1868#post14897). ;)

I would love to be able to access my files and my applications organised the way I like it from anywhere without having to make do with the programs installed on someone else's computers while cramming as many potentially interesting files as I can into low-capacity USB storage devices.

Doing support for Compiz Fusion away from home is difficult, for example, because ccsm's structure and the output formats and parameter strings of many commands is a bit challenging to memorise. ;) I currently rely on ssh and, when necessary, TightVNC. But it's slow, sometimes ugly, requires installing extra software on the computer I happen to be using--if I'm even allowed to do that--and it takes an awful long time to get it all set up when I have to shut them down as soon as I have no longer have an immediate need for them (lest I be suspected of doing something weird with someone else's computers--I get accused of doing that a lot).

Currently, eyeOS is not as interesting to use as Linux for the same reason that Linux is not as interesting to use as Windows for some other people: I have not learned to depend on eyeOS' applications, structure, and work flow. And honestly, it's missing a whole lot of what I consider "fun".

If eyeOS or another OS that revolves around remote access ever becomes as complete as I've made my computing environment here, though, it would certainly be worth consideration. Oh, and security is important. Hardcore security that makes it extremely difficult for even intermediate backbone routers to know each packet's initial origin and final destination addresses and ports, the protocol over which they are communicating, and any of the data they allegedly contain.