[ubuntu-uk] Users needed for masters project

[Chris Wilson]

HI Andres,

The questions isn't at all out of line. In fact, you've given me something
else to add to the FAQ on the site :)

I visited the eyeOS homepage and it sounds pretty cool. The one drawback, at
least in my mind, is that it's based inside a browser, rather than running
natively on a computer. While there are many excellent cloud apps out there,
web technologies in general are not sufficiently advanced enough to be an
adequate replacement for native desktop and mobile technologies. I've tried
several times to migrate all my computing habits fully into the cloud and
I've always come up against some sort of limitation that brings me back to
the desktop.

Another thing is that eyeOS requires the user to either abandon their
current OS in favour of eyeOS, or at the very least maintain some sort of
hybrid existence. The first scenario, to me at least, should be a last
resort since the primary concern in software engineering is, or at least
should be, designing around the user, and if the user is already comfortable
with their existing OS, then the goal should be to expand the feature set of
that OS rather than ask them to replace it, so I am designing this system to
augment Ubuntu. The hybrid scenario contains many potential points of
failure. particularly with regard to file synchronisation. From experience,
I know that keeping files synced across multiple devices on multiple
platforms is a pain and a half, and almost always results in older version
of some files being mistaken for newer ones. If the user wanted to work on
the native desktop, with which they are comfortable, and use eyeOS only for
certain situations in which they need a 'continuous client' setup, then
there's the chance that somewhere along the line some files will get missed.

Hope that answers your question,
Chris

On 6 May 2011 09:33, Andrés Muñiz Piniella <andresmp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't this similar to eyeOS?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS
>
> Sorry if it's out of line.
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