An interesting announcement on computerworld (the Danish edition) caught my attention the other day. Apparently a Swedish company launched the beta of their web-os. Now web os’es have been around for a long time and though I find the concept appealing, I never really cared enough to sign up for anything else than a test account. On top, last account’s I signed up for were loooong time ago, and were based on X-server installations. Pretty neat at the time, but darn slow. Now what I found at http://www.icloud.com/ was different: Responsive, faster, easy to use and nice looking. Tomy surprise, the GUI is not based ot the regular GNU/linux icons and window decorations. Apparently the whole thing runs on something called XIOS – the webpages Q&A provides loads of info for tekkies. But I guess the server OS is not important since the trick is to have the client apps run in the client browser rather than in a traditional host session. Interesting enough for me to sign up and login…
After some 15 seconds of clicking all windows on the ‘desktop’, I hit F11. BANG! fullscreen pleasure. Cool…
Now all I need is a SD/USB-stick that allows me to quickboot Firefox (3,5 – for speed). Googling got me to http://webconverger.com/.
Tonight, I will give the combination a test run & see where it gets me. Can’t wait…
