The article is called “OS en ligne : découverte de trois bureaux virtuels” or “OS online: discovery of three virtual desktops“, and you can read the original article in french here and a english translation from Google here.

Thanks, Clubic!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Changes since 1.6.0.2:

[Add] Kernel aliases eyeCalendar library now has an alias.
[Change] eyeManageApps eyeManageApps now shows the group's icon along with its name.
[Fix] eyeCalendar   Corrected bug that permitted the creation of events with an ending time previous to its start time.
[Fix] eyeContacts   Fixed bug that showed a confirmation dialog when trying to delete a contact without selecting one.
[Fix] eyeSessions   Fixed duration of the cookie set due to a problem with its handling in PHP.
[Fix] miniActions   Fixed bug that made it open two instances of the application.
[Fix] Tab widget    The Tab widget now uses a positive default width and height values.
[Fix] eyeWidgets    Fix on the unserialization of a widget.
[Fix] eyeSessions   Fixed bug that can take place when a long request is made.
[Fix] mmap+Kernel   Now mmap uses the function json_encode to pass an array to the JavaScript code. This change allows to pass an array correctly under Firefox 3.
[Fix] eyeX          Long requests made to the server work perfect under Firefox 3.
[Fix] eyeDesk       Fixed the duplicated contextual menus under Firefox 3.
[Fix] eyeManageApps eyeManageApps now lists the groups and applications icon's.
[Fix] eyeManageApps Improved presentation under IE6.
[Fix] mmap   Fixed problem in service_mmap_array2jsArg() with null-like values

This application is fully integrated with the eyeOS Filesystem and dialogs and will let you load and save your presentations from inside eyeOS.

From its website:

eyeShow is a presentation application where you can make slides, with texts, colorize your text, change the size, the font, the style. You can add cliparts form an external repository or form eyeOS, add lists, bring front, bring back …The Clipart Repository is based on a xml feed, the Clipart application can must customized to offer clipart to eyeDocs and more.

eyeShow has a post in the eyeOS Forums where you can make suggestions and discuss the application here.

Some of these bugs were reported by users of our community in our Launchpad platform, and we want to thank them for helping us detecting and solving the bugs: thank you very much!

This maintenance version, eyeOS 1.6.0.3, will fully support Firefox 3, as well as fixing other bugs in the system, making this version more and more stable.

We must remember that we want to keep the eyeOS 1.6 version as solid and stable as possible, and we will be releasing a maintenance release about every month. Stay tuned to download this release soon!

Once again, and we will never get tired of saying this, thanks to everybody who makes this possible. Voting is open, with both a Sourceforge account or an OpenID account, and everybody can take part and decide who will be the project most likely to change the world!

GMV is a technological enterprise group with an international presence which operates in nine large sectors: Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies for public and private organizations. You can read more about GMV in this document [PDF, 1.5MB, 24p].

We would like to thank the whole GMV team (with a special effort on the SGI -Global Internet Solutions- part of the company) who has trusted the eyeOS platform since its begginings and is now entering a new step in the Web Desktop Solutions, with our team.

All the benefits derived from this new partnership will be noticeable from the eyeOS Open Source Platform and the eyeOS Community, starting with some public events late 2008 that will be announced this summer.