On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:40 +0100, Andres wrote:
> 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 <[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/ > > > > > > Totally agree - I first had a look at EyeOS about 3 years ago when it was still in its infancy, kept an eye on it - it's been launched commercially now and it's a really good system but we couldn't offer it as a replacement for native desktops. We're looking at various hardware/software options to reduce the maintenance headaches for Ubuntu/Lubuntu users and, at the same time, to develop a custom installation for NGOs. I personally use hybrid - I think one of the problems of syncing across devices (having spend half of last night sorting out a corrupted installation of syncevolution on my n900 and manually sorting out the mess made across two laptops and an LTSP desktop server by a couple of slow-syncs) - a lot of the problems here come from syncing between different platforms and applications. Dropbox has got it down - I think if we get to a stage of running some version of Ubuntu on convergent devices and Ubuntu One gets less buggy and more cross-platform, the hybrid model becomes much more workable? Paula
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