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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't this similar to eyeOS? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS > > Sorry if it's out of line. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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