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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. Re:Ok.... by Eternauta3k · · Score: 5, Informative

    There should be a link to some of these pages, instead of no content linking to a practically blank page.

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    Yeah. Would you choose a neurosurgeon who pokes around people's brains in his spare time? I wouldn't.
  2. How deep can it go? by AdamBomb8705 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Upon seeing this, I immediately wondered whether the OS's web browser could run itself. I'm posting this comment from inside YouBrowser, which is running on YouOS inside of another YouBrowser inside of YouOS in Firefox. So looks like it's possible. I wonder how many levels you could go down...

  3. Operating System? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    When did we start confusing a desktop "shell" application and a handfull of basic functions with an "Operating System"?

    An operating system is the code that provides the operating environment in which these programs run; not the programs themselves; a layer between the hardware and the application programs that provides a uniform environment, manages resources, arbitrates contentions, provides synchronization primatives such as semaphores, schedules CPU utilization, etc. Its "users" are programs, not people; its user interfaces are APIs; not shells. Shells and other application programs provide what we traditionally think of as USER interfaces for interacting with humans.

    Along with the operating system one often finds a suite of shell programs (textual or GUI), basic applications and administrative programs to provide a user environment. These may be included in the operating system package, and are helpful or even essential in making the operating system usable but are not themselves the operating system or part of it.

    This important distinction seems to be lost on the likes of Microsoft. Perhaps as a result, this disturbing misconception seems to be spreading throughout the community.

    If the "You OS" involves somewhere an operating system, it lives on their server infrastructure and the users never see it.