We’re glad to announce that we will attend PHP Conference, that will be celebrated in Barcelona (Spain) the next September 27th.

There is available a list of speakers and talks, and the registration process has been already opened.

If you are interested in the eyeOS Project and eyeOS applications development and you will be at Spain during that week, it’s a great opportunity to meet the eyeOS Team, that will assist for the talk and (of course) to give some stickers and manuals away

Initially, eyeOS 1.6 was thought to be the last version before the all-new eyeOS 2.0 (that will be presented with some mock-ups very soon), but the developers at the eyeOS Developers Community have been working during a few months to create a last 1.x version that will provide some really nice improvements to the overall system.

Particularlly, one of the developers has demonstrated during this period great skills to lead the changes for a new version. But that’s not all. He also mantains the eyeOS Websites and created the eyeOS Translations system.

This would be probably enough to clearly guess the name of the last eyeOS 1.x version name, but hey, he’s also owns the record of posted messages in the eyeOS Forums, helping day after day every new user in the community.

This is why the new version will be called eyeOS 1.7 Lars.

The new 1.7 Lars will include some major new features that will be announced together with the Preview version during the next week, as usual, with a Demo Server to test and report bugs.

Stay tuned!

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.