We are proud to announce that eyeOS 1.2 has just been released!

It’s not just a necessary update on eyeOS 1.x., but also a bunch of new features and applications needed by eyeOS to be really useful for the every day use. Need to send a mail? Well, just open eyeMail. Did your friend send a Microsoft Word file? No problem, eyeOS will open it and allow you to modify it. Want to have multiple groups for family and friends to share information between them? eyeControl 1.2 will let you do that and much more, visually.

And much more:

Microsoft Word (.doc) compatibility
By just uploading a MS Word file and clicking on it, eyeVisor will pop up and show you the document. You can edit it by clicking on the Edit button, and saving it back when you’re ready. That simple.

Send me a mail!
Since you can add as many accounts as you want in your eyeOS Mail Client, you can have, from everywhere and in a single place, access to all your mails accounts.

Multiple File Upload
While the big improvement in MFU has been delayed until 1.2.1, eyeOS 1.2 includes real multiple upload, Gmail style, that will allow you to choose all the files you want to upload to your eyeOS account.

Design improvements here and there
The desktop bar, the eyeDock icons and the application icons are just few examples of the design improvements in eyeOS 1.2. That would have been impossible without Marc, the eyeOS designer (No, he’s not leaving eyeOS to work for anyone else .

A real and powerful Control Center
eyeControl 1.2 (mainly developed by Lars Knickrehm) features lots of options to customize your desktop (if you’re a normal user) or to full administrate your server (if you’re the administrator), allowing you to create and remove groups and users, customizing the eyeSoft repositories, activating / deactivating user creation and much more.

Full FTP client, done 100% with the eyeOS Toolkit
The new eyeFTP (developed by Anaël Ollier) allows you to browse public and private FTP servers, and the most important, inter-actuate with them. Upload and download files from the FTP server to your eyeOS server or to your computer, even if your actual connection does not allow access to the FTP port: all you’re doing is moving trough your eyeOS system, and is the server which is handling the FTP connection.

Customize your Dock
Finally! Create new groups and move applications between them, and add the applications you have downloaded from eyeSoft/Packages Center to your dock. Everything from the new Applications Manager.

Not just videos. Also Movies.
The new eyeMovies features the latest codec support for being able to view big video files encoded as DivX from your eyeOS system. Just upload your movie and launch it, and eyeOS will do the rest.

Compress and uncompress.
The new eyeArchive, which opens automatically when you click a Zip file allows you to uncompress your zip files and create new ones from folders and files.

How many space did you said I have?
With eyeOS 1.2 and its new quotas system, you can control how many space do your users have on your server. Users will be able to check their used space from eyeControl, and the admin will be able to have full control over the used space of the eyeOS installation.

Automatic Thumbnails!
If your server does have the GD library installed and enabled you’ll see thumbnails of your images instead of the classic image icon.

Developers, developers, developers!
New widgets are included (Toolbar,Tree, Progressbar…) as well as new libraries to communicate with outside eyeOS. The eyeOS API is finally marked as stable in eyeOS 1.2.0.

And what’s next?
While eyeOS 1.2 represents a great step on the eyeOS everyday usage, there is still a long road to go. Stay tuned for the official roadmap for eyeOS 1.3, planned for December 27th, during the next days, and the small updates on the 1.2.x!Thanks a lot for the continued support, testing and programming for this new release. Lars, Anaël, Vilu, and all of you who have been connected into the SVN development: Thanks.

Download eyeOS 1.2.0!
As usually, you can download the new version Installer and Updater from the Downloads Page. Documentation and translation tables will be updated soon!

We’re proud to announce that eyeOS 1.2.0 will be finally released the next Monday (October 29th).The Roadmap has finally suffered some small changes, and a big last-weeks include, which was planned for eyeOS 1.3: The Microsoft Word (.doc) file support for both reading and writing!

The full release changelog and improvements will be published the next Monday. Thanks to everybody who has helped on its development trough the forums, the IRC channel and the SVN server!

 Update: Patience, it’s almost here  

As some of you have noticed, we have finally decided not to release an official package as “eyeOS 1.2.0.0 beta“, however, the final release date is not moved.

We have decided not to release the 1.2 beta mainly because some of the new system widgets, necessary to send out a beta of some components are not ready yet to the public.

To all of you who would like to see how is eyeOS 1.2 development, you can take a look at the official Subversion server, which will be full updated daily during the next week, and we’re getting reports about all stuff there.

We’ll be releasing the official Roadmap of eyeOS 1.3 and some cool new stuff arround the future steps at the project very soon. Stay tuned!

One week and a half before the eyeOS 1.2.0.0 Beta (planed for October 20th), the first desktop/apps new designs start to raise. Today we’re presenting some improvements for the eyeOS Desktop 1.2:

Note that everything may change until the final version

After a year and a half on Blogger, we have decided to migrate the blog to the WordPress platform to have full control over the blog and its server, and have a new URL like the other eyeOS Network Services: blog.eyeos.org. Please update your bookmarks!

The feed will continue being the same (since it’s hosted on Feedburner, so there is no need to change its URL), and we are creating new categories to use this blog to promote tips and tricks around the eyeOS every day usage, hints for eyeOS Developers, new releases, interesting articles about eyeOS and everything hapening around the project.

Hope everything will be ported without problems, please contact us if you see anything wrong here!