<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="Osso Notes"> <title></title></head> <body> Yes it does, thanks. The creator of eyeOS went by a spanish talkshow (buenafuente) seemed his buisness was going well and I half understood what it was all about. Pretty impresive for a 17 year old (now 23) Isn't google's cromeOS in the same lines? -- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents HTML, plain txt or pdf are preffered. ----- Original message ----- > HI Andres, > > The questions isn't at all out of line. In fact, you've given me > something else to add to the FAQ on the site :) > > I visited the eyeOS homepage and it sounds pretty cool. The one > drawback, at least in my mind, is that it's based inside a browser, > rather than running natively on a computer. While there are many > excellent cloud apps out there, web technologies in general are not > sufficiently advanced enough to be an adequate replacement for native > desktop and mobile technologies. I've tried several times to migrate all > my computing habits fully into the cloud and I've always come up against > some sort of limitation that brings me back to the desktop. > > Another thing is that eyeOS requires the user to either abandon their > current OS in favour of eyeOS, or at the very least maintain some sort of > hybrid existence. The first scenario, to me at least, should be a last > resort since the primary concern in software engineering is, or at least > should be, designing around the user, and if the user is already > comfortable with their existing OS, then the goal should be to expand > the feature set of that OS rather than ask them to replace it, so I am > designing this system to augment Ubuntu. The hybrid scenario contains > many potential points of failure. particularly with regard to file > synchronisation. From experience, I know that keeping files synced > across multiple devices on multiple platforms is a pain and a half, and > almost always results in older version of some files being mistaken for > newer ones. If the user wanted to work on the native desktop, with which > they are comfortable, and use eyeOS only for certain situations in which > they need a 'continuous client' setup, then there's the chance that > somewhere along the line some files will get missed. > > Hope that answers your question, > Chris > > On 6 May 2011 09:33, Andrés Muñiz Piniella <<a href="mailto:andresmp@gmail.com">andresmp@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > Isn't this similar to eyeOS? > > > > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS</a> > > > > Sorry if it's out of line. > > > > -- > > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> > > </body> </html>