February 8th, 2010 by Jordi Collell in: Books
During the last few months a group of IBM engineers and directors have been working on a RedPaper about eyeOS. We’re happy to announce that it reached the “Final” state this weekend. It’s called “Performance Test of Virtual Linux Desktop Cloud Services on System z” and analyzes how eyeOS scales over a mainframe environment, multiple processors and up to thousands of users working simultaneously on a same environment.
This document is one of the most important documents published about eyeOS, since it deeply analyzes how eyeOS can be implemented in a mainframe such IBM’s System Z, providing some important (and nice!) results on how the project scales:
The results show that eyeos has excellent scalability on System z running as a Linux guest under z/VM up through a 16 processor image at optimum utilization. This is partially due to the fact that a single Linux guest container can support thousands of clients, rather than requiring one Linux guest per client.
We’d like to thank the whole IBM team that made this possible, and to invite everyone to download the RedPaper and read it.
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February 1st, 2010 by Jordi Collell in: eyeos 2.0
We’re happy to publish and announce today the new eyeOS 2.0 site with all the base information for eyeOS 2.0 as well as its full source code, finally opened to everyone with a new svn server.
For those who are not developers and would like to discover eyeOS better, we have released a new site (www.eyeos.org/20) which has been divided in an Overview, some Technical information and some information about the base applications. This info talks about eyeOS 2.x -so some features might not be available until eyeOS 2.1, for example-.
For the devs, we have opened a new public SVN server so you can track and follow all the development of eyeOS 2.x. We’ll be moving entirely our development branch to this new SVN during the next few days, but the code is totally available right now with our latest internal revision from just some minutes ago. The branch opened is trunk and there are some features under development which are not thought to be released in eyeOS 2.0.0, which will come out when it’s ready –and we’re working really hard to get it ready as soon as possible after receiving the first feedback from some of you. The SVN server is located at https://public.eyeos.org/eyeos2 and you can see detailed instructions here.
We have done and we are doing our best for the 2.0, but it’s not an easy project: It has been rewritten from scratch and the first tests showed that we needed to improve its usability –which required some changes all over the system. This is the reason of the delay.
To those who have been supporting the project and the team, thanks. We’re proud to be a company that works exclusively to create Open Source software. This is not easy sometimes, but your support breaks the barriers. As you can see with this announcement and release, we’ll continue releasing eyeOS as Open Source –even being lucky to see the interest of incredibly big companies around it 
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January 20th, 2010 by Pau Garcia-Milà in: eyeos 2.0
UPDATE: Dear all,
Please calm down. There is no conspiracy with IBM nor Telefonica to hide anything to anyone. eyeOS 2.0 code will be published as usual, not copyrighted from IBM nor Telefonica. Telefonica is the biggest ISP in Spain and we presented eyeOS 2.0 together. We love that you want eyeOS 2.0 released as much as we want… But patience today means better product tomorrow.
As a result of your requests (which have been a bit rude sometimes) we’ll be opening eyeOS 2.0 code in an SVN this week.
Thanks
As we already explained some weeks ago, we have been presenting this week eyeOS 2.0 in Barcelona and we’ll be presenting it in Madrid on monday. A new video of 2.0 will be published after Madrid’s presentation.
About the release date, we know you deserve an explanation.
On our first internal release we invited some people to test it out. The result was that eyeOS 2.0 rocked, but it missed a lot of feedback for the user on some actions. It was not clear and the user could get lost during the eyeOS 2 usage.
We realized that we needed to fix this before the release to not disappoint eyeOS users with the new release. eyeOS 1 has been known for its great design and usability, and 2.0 must be as good as 1, with some new exciting features. If we fail on this, we fail on everything.
This is the reason we delayed the final date. eyeOS 2.0 exists, and some of you are testing actively lots of functionalities. And we thank you a lot for this.
We understand that some of you would prefer an Open Development, and we’ll be opening everything soon. This is quite important for us (more than one year of work) and we want it to be perfect. This is why we ask you for some little more patience. Having the support from all of you is the best to work motivated. It has always motivated us.
With the first beta release (once all feedback problems have been fixed) everything will be opened, included the development of the final release. And we’re working really hard to get this.
Thanks for understanding us.
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