On 07/09/2012, at 10:32, Dennis Kane wrote: > > On Friday, September 7, 2012 1:30:55 AM UTC-4, Karl Tiedt wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Dennis Kane <dka...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi! I've got a really slick Desktop GUI working that almost rivals my >>> MacBook:) What I am creating is basically a browser based operating system >> >> Have you seen the Lucid Desktop project? >> http://dojofoundation.org/projects/lucid-desktop > > I think I have seen that site before... but the fact that I don't really > remember is not a good thing! I guess the first red flag about that project > is the fact that the last blog entry is dated September 30 2011. Also, I > couldn't figure out how to jump through the hoops necessary to get the demo > working. Mine is painfully simple to get working, though, and I am > interested in working on it and blogging about it pretty much every day for > the forseeable future! So I guess I'm just not very excited/worried about > it.
Yeah, that (lucid-desktop) seems to be a dead project... Here's the pioneer of "web operating systems" (+6 years old) that's cool and awesome and still alive and kikin': http://eyeos.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeos There's also Dan Ingalls' more academic experiment: http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/gettingStarted.xhtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lively_Kernel And WebShaka's (dead) attempt at it: http://www.youos.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouOS -- Jorge. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
