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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. 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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  3. 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...

  4. EyeOS by Randomskk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is pretty similar to EyeOS ( http://eyeos.org/ ), which runs on any web server and lets you use apps (IM, RSS, web browser, games, etc) in it, change the background etc. I've got this running on my web server, and if nothing else it's great when I want to check the /. RSS while away from home :P

  5. Re:It's not an OS by Lumpio- · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree - this has been bugging me since I heard about "YouOS" ages ago. It's not an OS. I'd rather refer to it as an online desktop environment.

  6. Not quite new, but by NotFamousYet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    YouOS has been around for a while, and it's part of a growing trend of online desktops (I refuse to refer to them as "Online OSes", because they're simply a desktop page that launches programs, an alternative to Explorer at best).

    If you're interested in this area, check out also:
    FlyaKiteOSX
    the 30Boxes Webtop
    EyeOS
    Computadora (in Spanish, even though .de ?)
    Goowy (it's in Flash though)

    And of course, because this is Slashdot, I couldn't go without mentionning that Google is probably preparing their own, since their recent focus on releasing equivalents of desktop applications online (Notes, Excel, Word, Calendar, Picasa, etc) :)

  7. 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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