We are really proud to explain that Softpedia, the great software downloads website, has added a new “eyeOS” section under the Internet software category.

The new eyeOS category (which shows almost all the apps in the eyeOS Applications Community) will make possible to lots of Softpedia users to discover eyeOS as a new way to work, from everywhere with the same apps and games.

This is a very important step in eyeOS, since both the community and the core team are working together to create a platform where thousands of apps can live on, and the support of one of the biggest downloads website, which does provide specially downloads for the traditional Operating Systems, shows that we’re going the right way (but there’s still a long road to go!).

The next step will be to place a big round button called eyeOS on the top of the software sites, with Windows, MacOS, Linux…. But for that, we need 10 or 15.000 apps ;-).

Thanks, Softpedia!

Any Operating System can be considered good and used when the developers are interested in developing apps for it. For this to happen, developers must see benefits of using such a new platform to learn and code.

eyeOS is a very strong platform to develop rich Web Applications from scratch, with or without a desktop as background to work: the developer can forget HTML, JavaScript, AJAX… and user management, base security and lots of other things, by letting eyeOS take care of all this and center the efforts to create the application itself, like if it was a desktop one.

For this reason, the whole eyeOS Team is working hard on provide every developer the needed tools to discover the power of the eyeOS core and Toolkit and to start programming on it, with a strong development community behind.

The first step (and it’s just the “Part I” of a serie) is the new eyeOS Documentation Centre , a new platforw which does provide reference and documentation for every system part: Widgets, Services, Libraries and Kernel.

The new Documentation Centre (which can be accessed from doc.eyeos.org) has been created using eyeOS. The Documentation Centre itself is formed by eyeOS Applications, after removing the Desktop layer. Of course, you can download its source (released as Open Source) and create your Documentation Centre with it. You will find download links and information on the Centre’s homepage.

Some people get confused when someone asks them “What is eyeOS?“. There are several possible answers to that question -eyeOS as a Platform, eyeOS as a Web Desktop, eyeOS as a remote file access…-. We have looked for the best way to centralize all the possible answers, and the result is this slideshow:

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You can download it as a presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint format and OpenOffice Impress format, or to be printed in PDF format. You can also see/download it from the Concept section at the eyeOS Website.

New documents (such as the cool and completely full Developers Manual) will be published soon…

We would love to know where are you using eyeOS, and which apps do you use on the system, to prepare the next releases acording to eyeOS main uses. Please take 20 seconds to answer this two polls:

We will be adding a new poll to resume the main whishes and blueprints for eyeOS 1.6 (add yours at this Forums’ topic) so the Roadmap of eyeOS 1.6 will be built with the most voted ideas.

Thanks!

We have just updated the main eyeOS Introduction video available in the Concept section:

You can view it at a higer resolution here and download it as MP4 from here [22MB]. The video (and its music!) is licensed under a CC license. Feel free to distribute it!