During some hours yesterday and this morning some users reported problems accessing the eyeOS Network (on the Main eyeOS Website, Free Server and Professional Services websites).

All these problems are now solved and we apologize for the problems that the not planned downtime, specially on the public server, may have caused. We changed the DNS system in the whole eyeOS Network and this kind of problems (that have affected in different servers at once) should not happen again.

We are now rebuilding some indexes. If you had an @eyeos.org mail account, please test it’s working and if not, please contact us at team@eyeos.org.

Thanks for all the reports and support!

• What will be the next version? - eyeOS 1.7 or eyeOS 2.0?
• When will the next version be released?
• What features are coming next?

Many users asked us such questions. At the forums, via Email, via IRC, via any other way of communication. Now we planned further steps and want to share them with you.

eyeOS 1.6 will be continued as most stable eyeOS branch. Updates will be released every month.

eyeOS 1.7 will be our next production version. It is based on eyeOS 1.6, but will introduce many new features: It will be completely translatable and themable and you will be able to define system administrators and system maintainers. For a complete list please visit this page.

eyeOS 2.0 will be our next system, which will introduce a new toolkit, a new base design with a new concept of Web Desktop usage and many new features and base applications. Note that eyeOS 2.x will be compatible with eyeOS 1.x: Applications from eyeOS 1.x will also work with eyeOS 2.x! We will publish more information about eyeOS 2.0 soon.

One day like today, back in 2005, we made public an idea about what the next step in working at Internet should be from our point of view. We called it “eyeOS“, because we wanted to create something visual and intuitive (eye), and similar to a traditional Operating System (OS) for the end user, taking advantage of the latest web technologies and sharing capabilities.

It’s really difficult for us to specify key moments in this three years. Competence has appeared, and sometimes eventually disappeared. We have seen how a market we started without knowing we were doing it has been growing and growing, and there are now more than 50 web operating systems out there. We have given more than 35 conferences about this concept and eyeOS recives about 250.000 unique visits per month now.

Of course, there have been problems during this three years. But all those problems have had a common point: They have been solved thanks to the community behind eyeOS. eyeOS has grown with its community, and some of the members that were there since the first days are today the people who mantains the eyeOS Websites Network, forums, blog, wiki, mailing lists, and even creates some parts of the eyeOS main code.

This is why eyeOS survived in some difficult moments and this is why today eyeOS in the de facto web desktop.

Today, eyeOS is celebrating his third birthday. Thanks to every one of you.