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darklife

This is great!

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http://www.gskinner.com/assets/0era/

Full operating system that runs on the sites server and turns a IE window (or Netscape, etc.) into a remote OS on your desktop. Is this the future of operating systems? If so, I wouldn't mind it. Mostly it's a GUI like X ran over a server but still good enough to play with! Really quick, even on a 28k dialup connection. No special downloads or anything like that, just click and run the OS in a web browser window :)
proxy

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That's pretty cool, but i dont think it qualifies as an Operating System :P

I'd call it more of a file manager with some built in windowing for ease of use.

Still, very cool none-the-less ;)

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darklife

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proxy wrote: That's pretty cool, but i dont think it qualifies as an Operating System :P
I agree. I don't know what the underlying system is though. It may be a real OS under the hood. I called it an OS since the creators did, just for reference ;)
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wow, yeah I don't know the official definition of an OS so I can't comment on its validity as a real OS but that is an incredibly neat idea. Like most new ideas I can't say that it is very practical now (even on dsl *I* sure wouldn't want to use it as my os) but the concept is really neat, in fact probably the coolest thing i have heard of so far this year! :)
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think of it: in order to run a Flash interpreter, you *will* need an OS. Even if it's simple. However, it's an interresting way of implementing a VNC-like service...

I'd be interrested to see whether it runs faster than X or not ...
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