The eyeOS Developers Community has been evolving since the first days at eyeOS. Nowadays, a developer that discovers eyeOS has a wide variety of resources to get introduced to the eyeOS applications development, communicate with other developers, publish ideas and bugs, etc.

Today, a new user asked for help in the Spanish forum about what should he/she do to start programming new applications for eyeOS, and Jose Carlos Norte answered with a small but great summary of almost everything available for new developers:

The eyeOS Developers Community Start-Page. The initial point for every developer, with a summary of all available resources. Available in many different languages (talk with Lars K. if you would like to translate the websites to your language!). Direct links to the eyeOS Developer Manual, the Getting Started guide…

The eyeOS Documentation Center. For those developers who have already read the Developer Manual and are already programming or starting to program eyeOS Applications. It’s really useful when you need to know which parameters should be passed to a widget, how to use a library or service…

The eyeOS Developers Mailing List, specially good when help is needed or when we’re stacked programming some application. Also useful for suggestions inside the eyeOS code, how to prepare new releases…

Finally, the Launchpad Resources. Mainly: Bugs and Blueprints. Useful to report and track open bugs that could be solved (some developers send patches to the mailing list with possible solutions or workarounds for open bugs), and to see or send new ideas about eyeOS and applications that could be developed.

As you can see, there is no reason for not starting today to program eyeOS Applications

It has been more than two years since that first post, where we announced that eyeOS had 5.000 users. That was amazing.

Today there are more than 265.000 users in the eyeOS Free Server, and more than 300.000 downloads in almost 3 years of project (we’ll be celebrating eyeOS 3rd anniversary in August 1st, 2008). And this is more amazing than ever.

During the first months of the blog, we used it as a tool to spread the new releases. Now we are starting a new step to spread the eyeOS Community creations and inventions, reviews of eyeOS Applications, discussions about the roadmaps and polls to discover what should the next eyeOS versions focus on.

So, if you have not done it before, subscribe to the eyeOS blog and stay tunned for something cool every week around your favorite Web Operating System

We hope you will be there for the next 100 posts.

Mathieu Terrasson (mterrasson in the forums) has started a serie of posts explaining, step by step, how to build and prepare a diskless thinclient for eyeOS.

In 4 different posts, the author explains how to prepare the environment, the pre-build time, the build time and some last considerations, being a great guide for those who would like to use just eyeOS in a network.

As the author says in the post,

I’ve worked on an OpenSource project that aims to create thinclient that should be used to access LAN or WAN eyeOS server. The thinclient will automaticaly run a firefox browser that will open a full screen page on a Eyeos url.

If you have any questions, suggestions or improvements you can use the topic with the tutorial to discuss it with its author.

At May 28th a post in a personal blog appeared announcing a new application for eyeOS. Less than two monts after that, the h3o eyeOS Apps have been growing and we can enjoy now 10 eyeOS Applications from Thorsten Zoerner, the creator of h3o.

h3oWiki (to have a lightweight wiki inside your eyeOS), h3oEyeAppsInstaller (to directly install apps from eyeOS-Apps.org), h3oSSH (to connect to servers through SSH) and h3oUpload (to upload files directly from your OS Desktop with drag and drop) are some examples of the eyeOS Applications created by h3o.

We recently read that there have been more than 1.000 downloads of the h3o apps, and we would like to encourage every eyeOS sysadmin to download and install some of the apps in their systems, and to keep an eye on the h3o blog for the future ones.

The third mantainance release for eyeOS 1.6 has been released, and can be downloaded from the eyeOS Downloads Page. For those users using the eyeOS Free Server, it’s already running the new version, so just log in!

This new version includes full compatibility with Firefox 3.0 and many minor bug fixes in services, libraries and applications. It does not include any security fix, but it’s recommended to all eyeOS system administrators.

Once again, we must thank the eyeOS Development Community, which is getting involucrated into every new eyeOS release, mainly through the eyeOS Development Mailing List, which is becoming more active every day.

To see the full change log, please continue reading.

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