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You OS Web Based Operating System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

Juergen writes "You OS comes from the MIT Labs and contains an email client, Chat Function, RSS Reader, and Text Editor. YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, mp3 players, and instant messaging. Even better, it's very easy to tweak an existing application or write your own. "

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  1. Title? by porkThreeWays · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the title it looked like this was a bad "in soviet Russia" joke...

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  2. Uh-Oh by psema4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have spent almost a year working on a project that is nearly identical to (if less mature than) YouOS. Atomic OS is not as advanced as YouOS due to lack of hackers and poor timing.

    This is driving me nuts. I logged into /. went through the headlines, then posted an article about Atomic OS. When I got back to the developers headlines... Boom. YouOS.

    Aaaarghh!

  3. Re:It's not an OS by jalefkowit · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's a bunch of applications. Yes, if you're Joe Sixpack, then that's what defines an OS...

    Cut them some slack, it's not like YouOS is from MIT or anything!

    Oh, wait.

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  4. A better solution by Millenniumman · · Score: 5, Funny

    A better web based OS could be made by allowing people to ssh into a computer running emacs. Then you'd have a full fledged OS, instead of a limited one like this. Plus, if you added vim, you would have a good text editor.

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    1. Re:A better solution by killjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

      How does that saying go..

      "emacs is my operating system, linux is my device driver"

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  5. Re:How deep can it go? by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's turtles all the way down, young man.

  6. Re:Great title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I tried to boot from the network, but it seems their BOOTP server if running, is not my LAN, I'm confused. How do I network boot using youos.com's BOOTP server?

  7. nx OS by wodelltech · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah...I had the same thought. Then I launced bitybrowser (within YouOS) and surfed over to www.youos.com...

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