Do you know, who is developing eyeOS and who translated it?

Many users contacted us to know more about us and about what everyone is doing. Finally we decided to create some new pages at eyeos.org. We finished them some days ago.

• At http://eyeos.org/?section=team you can find more information about the people behind eyeOS.
• If you go to the downloads page and select “Translations” you now have a list with all available translations. We also create one single package including all available translations.
• You can now find all available translations of the website at the top of it in a select box. Simply choose a translation and the site reloads.
• The forum is updated, too! We edited the theme of it and added the eyeOS header. Now the forums are directly integrated into the eyeOS websites and you can easily choose your forums language.
• We also updated the community section and removed old data from it.

If you have any idea or comment concerning the eyeOS websites or the translations, please contact Lars Knickrehm. You can find more information about how to translate eyeOS at this wiki page.

Mat Harley, writer at Datamation has written a great article about the finalists at the Most Likely to Change the World SourceForge award. It analyzes one by one all the finalists to see why they are most likely to change the world.

From the article,

[...] EyeOS, if developed to the point where users can quite literally take their desktops with them anywhere, could prove to be invaluable. There are instances where bringing along a notebook, assuming it is in sync with the files on your desktop, can prove to be more of a hassle than a benefit. [...] (by Matt Hartley)

Read the full article!

Some hours ago SourceForge.net published the winners of the “Community Choice Awards 2008“. eyeOS has been a finalist of the category “Most Likely to Change the World”.

The eyeOS project has been founded nearly 3 years ago and our community is growing hard since eyeOS 1.0 has been released. We are surprised, that so many people use eyeOS!

The category “Most Likely to Change the World” counts eleven projects. Three of them are traditional Operating Systems: Linux and its distribution Ubuntu and the ReactOS project, which develops a system with compatibility to Microsoft Windows. That fact tells us that eyeOS is in the right way for the future: Not just because of being one of the eleven projects Most Likely to Change the World, but also to be there with traditional Operating Systems.

We will publish information about the next versions soon. Please stay tuned!

This is just a small note to tell that Lars Knickrehm, who is the most active user in the eyeOS Forums, manages the official eyeOS websites and programs some of the base applicatios (and grea plug-ins, such the Translations one), is now officially posting on the eyeOS Blog.

It’s a pleasure for us to be able to introduce members from the eyeOS community to post here in the  blog, to mantain and discuss the most hot points inside the eyeOS community.

So, just a couple of minutes before the first Lars’ post, we just want to say, in name of the whole team:

Welcome, Lars!

As the eyeOS French Blog already posted, the great French publication at Internet about technology, Clubic, has written a review of the Web Operating Systems panorama, and which is a very good read.

The article is called “OS en ligne : découverte de trois bureaux virtuels” or “OS online: discovery of three virtual desktops“, and you can read the original article in french here and a english translation from Google here.

Thanks, Clubic!