In first place, we want to thank everybody who voted for eyeOS to be the winner of the Public Web Revelation award at Yahoo Spain. Finally, eyeOS has been the winner of the Technology category, being the Tech Web Revelation of 2007 by Yahoo Spain.

We would like to announce also that we will finally relaunch tonight the new eyeOS Public Server, which will provide more space per user and specially more overall velocity. We are sorry for the inconveniences the service stop may have caused. We’re sure that every eyeOS.info user will notice the increase of disk space and velocity on the new server. The new partnership with the great hosting company which is providing the new servers will be announced soon.

Once again, thanks to everybody in the eyeOS community who is making this project bigger and bigger, day after day.

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We are proud to announce the release of the most important version of eyeOS ever: the new eyeOS 1.5 “Gala”.

The new eyeOS version is the first to include full support for both the Microsoft Office and OpenOffice formats, for Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations.
 

eyeOS 1.5 Gala also introduces new applications, such as eyeMessages (the new Internal Messaging system) and the new eyeContacts and eyeCalendar, which have been rewritten to provide a much better functionality and new features.

There are also new services and libraries available for developers, such as the new Right Click service, which has been implemented to almost all base applications and provides a much better system usage, making it more intuitive for new users.

The new version can be downloaded here and tested in the demo server.

We think that with this version, eyeOS is now Business and Production ready, providing a really stable system to develop and port specific applications for every business. All problems regarding special characters on the whole system have been resolved, providing a much more stable user experience with the desktop and the base applications.

Since some months ago, several people inside and outside the eyeOS community has told us that had plans to use eyeOS profesionnaly. But even with companies being every day more interested about Open Source Software Solutions, they still would need 3 guarantees before moving to an OSS solution :

• Being secure that the software will persist in the future
• Predictability
• Support

This is why we have decided to launch Professional Services around eyeOS, to give a strong base for spreading the eyeOS project in the business area.

We believe that being Open Source, eyeOS has great capabilities of being implemented successfully on Schools and Companies, providing Support, Personalization, Specific Development and Training to all those companies, schools and governments who are interested in.

We also announce today the availability of the new websites of :

• The new eyeOS Open Source Network: eyeOS.org which is and will be the base of the Open Source project and community
• The brand new eyeOS.com website, which offers eyeOS Based Professional Services.

The plans around Professional Services do include to contract and work collaboratively with people in the eyeOS Development Community with the new Professional Projects.

We want to thank specially in this release the whole community which has been testing the latest RC versions and making eyeOS better and better, to the people at OOOForum, who has helped a lot in the new eyeOffice connectors, and to Ricardo Galli, who has helped a lot on the best configurations for the new servers.

About the eyeOS Public Server, we will have it online back in the next hours. The new server will provide more space to each individual user and a great increase of velocity on the whole Server. It will be online tomorrow, with the new eyeOS 1.5 Gala version!

The official annouce of the new eyeOS Hosting Parters and an official press release about the new eyeOS 1.5 Gala will be available soon.

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We’re proud to announce that the eyeOS project has been nominated with 39 other sites as the Revelation Web of 2007 by Yahoo Spain.

There is an open voting process where the public favorite will be chosen by everybody who wants to vote, and a private votation process where a jury will choose the best of the sites.

The public votation process ends in two days. You can vote here. Thanks!

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We’re happy to announce the second RC for the next eyeOS version 1.5.

The first RC has had a very great success in eyeOS community, with +-500 testers working and testing in the online RC tests server, and we want to thank everybody who is helping to make the most stable eyeOS release ever.

This second RC (that can be tested from the Online Server that we have prepared for testing and which is always updated) includes lots of bug fixes and visual improvements:

• eyeFiles now shows the two final blocks (for allowing actions without right click menus). Note that tree block will be improved visually for the final release.
• eyeCalendar is now much more stable and works under Internet Explorer.
• Right click menus (desktop, eyeFiles…) have been visually standarized and are now using eyeOS graphics.
• eyeFTP has been upgraded to 3.0 RC1. Tests and notes on this new version of eyeFTP will be greatly welcomed.
• Office support has been improved
• eyeControl does provide a new Desktop interface.

Note that all the users from the previous RC1 in the tests server have been mantained, however, we recommend to create a new user to test this new release in a fresh new desktop (which will include more apps in eyeDock than the previous RC1, for example).

Lots of small bugs reported in the Release Candidates Bug Reports  have been solved. Please keep reporting and making together the best eyeOS release! The new version tarball can be downloaded from here (note that it’s a self installed eyeOS only for testing pruposes).

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Due to some claims in the eyeOS Forums, we have decided to release a RC before the final eyeOS 1.5: The new version will be codenamed 1.5 (instead of 1.3) due to the big improvements in functionalities it will have. We want this release to be the most stable ever, and for that, we want to be sure that it does not have important bugs.

eyeOS 1.5 includes three new big applications: eyePresentation, to watch Microsoft Powerpoints and OpenOffice Presentations with eyeOS, eyeSheets, to see and edit Microsoft and OpenOffice sheets (between other formats) and eyeMessages, an app to send and receive internal messages with the possibility to attach files to the messages. Sending files between eyeOS users has not been easier never before!.

Note that both documents and spreadsheets will open with eyeVisor first, which ensure a great compatibility and does not edit the file at all. As you will see, eyeViewer has an awesome good compatibility with Sheets and documents, preserving all the formats and styles. While editing Excel/OpenOffice Sheets is still experimental, it will be included in the new release, so feedback on the Sheets editor opening excel/ooosheets with formulas will be greatly appreciated.

The new version also includes the brand new eyeCalendar and eyeContacts, which are now a complete Calendar and Agenda, with multiple calendars/colors and a great importing and exporting tool from vCard (that can import thousands of contacts at same time).

We have prepared an Online server where everybody can test and play with the new release. We recommend everybody to test the new eyeOS from the Online server, since it does have the OpenOffice connector installed (complete instructions to install it in any server will be given the day of the release). It’s an open server, so everybody can register, but it will be deleted after the release.

To test the new release, please go to rctests.eyeos.org .

You can download the eyeOS RC1 from here (Note that it’s a self installed package, and does not provide the eyeOS security settings created by the installer, so please do not use it under production environments. User: root - Password: root) .

We have also created a new forum named Release Candidates Bug Reports to center in one single place all the discussion about found bugs. Please, use it for posting new bugs and discussing existent ones. It’s the best moment to do it!

Some notes on this release:

• This release includes the right click actions and makes intensive use of it. All feedback on this will be appreciated.
• eyeFiles does not show the final boxes for the release (you can now right click on files to show specific actions or on blank space on eyeFiles to show global actions). The final release will have both Tree and Actions boxes.
• If you use the packed version, remember to give sufficient permissions to all the files for the webserver’s user to be able to read and write to the whole system.
• Feedback on opening and using office files (specially OpenOffice and MSOffice ones) will be really appreciated.
• eyeSheets save button is not supposed to work in this RC.

PS: As you may supose, the big surprise around eyeOS will be announced (or presented ) with the final release.

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