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OEone HomeBase Desktop

Posted by michael on from the training-wheels dept.

Mike Potter writes "OEone has released its OEone HomeBase product as an open source project, and a free download. HomeBase is a complete operating environment that runs on top of Mozilla, with the base operating system being RedHat Linux 7.1 or 7.2. There's a review of it over at Newsforge. Some of the OEone software has already been released as open source to other projects. For instance, OEone's calendar was the basis of the Mozilla Calendar project."

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  1. Re:Hang on here... by Jack+Hughes · · Score: 4, Informative
    It isn't built on top of the browser.. it is built on some of the the same building blocks that Mozilla is built on. Perhaps the most important is XUL (XML User Interface Language).

    So rather than using KDE/QT or GTK+ or Motif or whatever it is using XUL and a load of other technologies to create the interface, widgets, look and feel and whatever.

    The intention is to create a relatively clear and simple user interface that can be used for key tasks but also lends itself to "kiosk" type applications - for example embedded systems such as set top boxes.

    They aren't necessarily trying to come up with a completely new general purpose desktop system but one which is appropriate for a, potentially, significant niche - set top boxes, internet kiosks and so on. They hope to make money by flogging the system to OEMs

  2. Its interesting by ACK!! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At least someone is trying a tactic to finally get beyond the STANDARD desktop model. Instead with this setup you have a combo concept where you have a desktop model merged into a home page model. I doubt if you can count it as revolutionary but at least they tried to push the edge a bit.

    For an end user I think it might actually be better than some lame approach of merely emulating a windows desktop on top of linux the way a couple of distros seem to be going like the Lindows stuff.

    What would be interesting to see is how a real life end user would react to such a setup.

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  3. Linux terminal for high-endusers by BroadbandBradley · · Score: 5, Funny
    in the nice demo tour at thier website, near the end it shows top running in a terminal window, the caption says:
    Linux terminal for high-endusers

    of course I thought, hey it's great someone is thinking about us stoners and providing the features that us really high end users need.

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  4. Here's the power in this by psicE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So somebody releases another Linux desktop. Not important. What is important is that it's based on XUL, theoretically a fully cross-platform toolkit; many simple XUL-based applets can run, unedited, on Mozilla on all platforms, at native speed.

    Imagine if this OEone desktop can somehow be designed to work equally well on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. So that a user can have a completely identical desktop no matter where they are. It makes transition to Linux much easier than before. Eh?

  5. Re:Is this really open source? ... doesn't seem so by Vic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Open-Source components are available via CVS. Directions for anonymous CVS are here:
    http://www.oeone.com/developers/

    Cheers,
    Vic