July 28, 2009 at 10:40About eyeOS and web axes. Usage example
I keep my old promise and tell how I use eyeOS as a system of personal accounts.
I became interested in web axes by accidentally reading the article “The Best WebOS” by Deimos Strentall at www.Xakep.ru/post/41262/default.asp a year and a half ago on the website of the Hacker magazine .
Since I collect all kinds of web exotics, I immediately went through all the links in the article and downloaded eyeOS (then you could only download it, since the rest of the systems were not available for download). Version 1.2 was still raw and rather buggy, with poor functionality. Twisting it, I abandoned this idea for a long time. The main thoughts are “against” - why use a web axis if there are normal ordinary OSes and indeed, what practical application can it come up with?
I returned to this idea by accident. There was a problem - in the corporate network to raise the office web server. So, raising the server and putting the next mirror of his portal there, I started solving one of the people's requirements to organize file sharing with a web interface and sharing access for arbitrary temporary users (for more details, we have several thousand users all over the network, some of them need to be given temporary access for file sharing, access should be divided into groups and individual users, the validity of access is limited). It is clear that this can also be done via FTP, but imagine regular administration work ...
After thinking, I already decided to write a couple of additional modules to the portal and then I remembered eyeOS.
New version downloaded from www.eyeos.orgpleasantly struck by the abundance of functionality, a large number of so-called "Third-party applications" ( eyeos-apps.org ) or just additional programs that can be installed on the system, as well as a Russification package. The only thing that was a rather big minus for the users was that the manual was only available in English, but I fixed it :) (see IEugene.habrahabr.ru/blog/59327 ). In the same post (Russian translation of documentation from offsite), you can approximately familiarize yourself with its capabilities.
So, putting a web site, I got for my purposes:
- a system of personal accounts for users;
- the ability to administer users as you like, knocking them into groups and assigning access rights;
- the ability for users to communicate with each other and exchange files of any type;
- The possibility of users working together on documents.
Yes, of course, there are solution options through forums, file hosting sites, etc., but: for a not-so-prepared user who had little experience working with Internet and web applications, log in and see the native desktop, as in any ordinary axis run similar to conventional applications outweighs all the possible advantages of other solutions. It is clear that in this case we hammer the nails with a microscope, but I believe that in case of lack of time and the availability of ready-made open source software, this option has the right to exist.
I became interested in web axes by accidentally reading the article “The Best WebOS” by Deimos Strentall at www.Xakep.ru/post/41262/default.asp a year and a half ago on the website of the Hacker magazine .
Since I collect all kinds of web exotics, I immediately went through all the links in the article and downloaded eyeOS (then you could only download it, since the rest of the systems were not available for download). Version 1.2 was still raw and rather buggy, with poor functionality. Twisting it, I abandoned this idea for a long time. The main thoughts are “against” - why use a web axis if there are normal ordinary OSes and indeed, what practical application can it come up with?
I returned to this idea by accident. There was a problem - in the corporate network to raise the office web server. So, raising the server and putting the next mirror of his portal there, I started solving one of the people's requirements to organize file sharing with a web interface and sharing access for arbitrary temporary users (for more details, we have several thousand users all over the network, some of them need to be given temporary access for file sharing, access should be divided into groups and individual users, the validity of access is limited). It is clear that this can also be done via FTP, but imagine regular administration work ...
After thinking, I already decided to write a couple of additional modules to the portal and then I remembered eyeOS.
New version downloaded from www.eyeos.orgpleasantly struck by the abundance of functionality, a large number of so-called "Third-party applications" ( eyeos-apps.org ) or just additional programs that can be installed on the system, as well as a Russification package. The only thing that was a rather big minus for the users was that the manual was only available in English, but I fixed it :) (see IEugene.habrahabr.ru/blog/59327 ). In the same post (Russian translation of documentation from offsite), you can approximately familiarize yourself with its capabilities.
So, putting a web site, I got for my purposes:
- a system of personal accounts for users;
- the ability to administer users as you like, knocking them into groups and assigning access rights;
- the ability for users to communicate with each other and exchange files of any type;
- The possibility of users working together on documents.
Yes, of course, there are solution options through forums, file hosting sites, etc., but: for a not-so-prepared user who had little experience working with Internet and web applications, log in and see the native desktop, as in any ordinary axis run similar to conventional applications outweighs all the possible advantages of other solutions. It is clear that in this case we hammer the nails with a microscope, but I believe that in case of lack of time and the availability of ready-made open source software, this option has the right to exist.