eyeOS 2.0 Beta Released

After several months of hard work we’re happy to announce today the immediate availability of the first official release of eyeOS 2.0 Beta. And even more: the new release doesn’t come alone but with the brand new eyeOS.org website, which has not ben redesigned for the last 2 years now. eyeOS 2.0 Beta can be downloaded from the new downloads page and tested from a Beta test server in eyeOS.info.

Today is a really special day for the eyeOS project. This new release includes a new, improved way to develop applications, a new desktop based on the great Qooxdoo library. It would have been impossible without the work of dozens of people working at eyeOS and now, more than ever, we need to be a giant team from everywhere in the world, working together on testing, debugging and translating this new version. A translation tool will be made available during the next few days.

What’s new?

eyeOS 2.0 Beta comes with the base desktop, users filesystem and the 5 base applications. From those, the files manager has been the main focus on the development. Note that this release includes some unestable apps, as Documents, Spreadsheets or Calendar, for example.

eyeOS 2.1 will be focused on the administration tools and office suite. A more detailed roadmap will be published soon. Please understand that while the system is stable now, the base apps must be seen as beta status and testing is really important right now. To report bugs and wishes please use the SourceForge tracker.

Social Bar

With the Social Bar you can know on every moment the collaborative status of the document your are working. Social Bar appears on every app which can be used collaboratively.

Groups

The groups allows you to work in a collaborative way with eyeOS 2.0 Beta. With a group you can, for example, share files with your contacts.

Events

The events shows you  the actions of your eyeOS 2.0 Beta account. New invitations for groups, pending contacts or shared files, for example.

Widgets

In the new version of eyeOS, the desktop concept has been rethought. Instead of just using the desktop to display a group of icons and a background, we decided to use it to display the information that is most helpful to the user. So the home screen is now a series of widgets that show the available applications and the most important information about your session, thus increasing your productivity.

Download and use eyeOS 2.0 Beta

eyeOS 2.0 Beta can be downloaded from this page. Please read carefully the release notes and Installation instructions before downloading eyeOS. If you just want to test the new version before considering downloading it, you can test it from the beta.eyeos.info server. Please note that you must create a new account in this new server before using it.

Please note that for the moment there won’t be an upgrade system from eyeOS 1.x to eyeOS 2.x.

Develop on eyeOS 2.0 Beta

You can download and read a first 2.0 Development manual abstract to learn how to create applications for eyeOS 2.0 Beta. The manual can be downloaded here.

We have opened a new public SVN server so you can track and follow all the development of eyeOS 2.x.  The SVN server is located at https://code.eyeos.org/trunk .

Next steps

This is just the new start. More information, videos and instructions, minor releases and more, on the next days.

Stay tuned!

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eyeOS in CeBIT: Summary

The last five days eyeOS has been on CeBIT and in this post we want to thank all people, who were there with us:

The authorities, the Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, the State Secretary for Telecommunication and Information Society of Spanish Government, Francisco Ros, the Red.es General Manager, Sebastián Muriel, and all members of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade for their support for and interest into the eyeOS project.

The community people, who visited us, who are supporting eyeOS since 2005, who love Open Source and the eyeOS project and work to increase and spread the project all around the world. It is really important for us to see and feel all these people, who has joined us on CeBIT. Without all this support it would be impossible to be The Open Source Web Desktop: a reference in the Cloud Computing world.

Finally, for those who are curious about the eyeOS stand, we want to present it to you. On the photos you can see the eyeOS Germany community leader, Lars Knickrehm, who were at the CeBIT and has spoken to a lot people there to explain them our concepts.

Stay tuned for the next days!

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eyeOS in CeBIT: Day 2

eyeOS is still on CeBIT and we’d like to stream our second day here.

Mr. Francisco Ros, State Secretary for Telecommunication and Information Society of Spanish Government has visited eyeOS today. He was interested in eyeOS project, Free Software and Cloud Computing topics. He left some interesting ideas and a photo with Jordi Collell (Communications manager) and Pau Garcia-Milà. Notice the eyeOS sticker on his suit pocket. He decided to keep it ;-)

On the other hand we have had some special visitors. eyeOS community members from Germany, France and the Netherlands have visited the eyeOS stand. The 2.0 version, the community, new applications and eyeOS in general had been the main themes on our conversations. We hope to make all of you feel as at home. For us is very important to have this kind of visits. People who know eyeOS, who really loves the project, and, when they visit the CeBIT, want to share and spend their time with us.

Thanks for sharing your CeBIT with us!

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