Run Your Own Cloud OS

By now, you are probably familiar with the term ‘cloud computing’ which basically means your data and/or applications are hosted or run through the web. For obvious reasons this can be beneficial for collaborative projects or people which use multiple machines.

If running your own cloud OS sounds like something you would like to do, check out eyeOS:

The idea of eyeOS is to create a free, open source [...] product easy to install on a web server so you will have your own cloud system under your control.

eyeOS comes with an impressive list of standard applications which are ready to use (screenshots). You can also add your own as you go.

Of course, you have to have a hosting account if you want to control the environment, however they also offer a public server where you can run these apps from their system. This is ideal for giving the system a try in the event is sounds interesting to you.

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Hi Ho
Looks interesting. However, the concept of cloud computing worries me because internet connections and servers are not always online and the idea of potentially not being able to access my data when I need it is troubling.
It doesn’t help that the eyeOS demo server appears to be down…
http://www.eyeos.info
joshp1
sounds cool.
also i think google is trying to develop something simular using google chrome as the innerface
http://Savedr.blogspot.com savedR
Hah, I had heard of them as a webtop, I didn’t know they did roll-your-own, that’s cool. Tonido is something else kinda like this, but it’s more like a suite of webapps you host than a web desktop. Full featured and very cool, though.
Allen
In all honesty why put ALL of the processing unto one computer. Most cloud processed OS i’ve used were either an OS that only could browse the internet or was, run from the browser, but you computer did the GUI of the processing.
If a person wanted a cloud OS, it would need to go from cloud to PC mode, so they would do stuff that make the processing power in the PC actually worth it. The only things I would trust to be cloud processed would be stuff that my computer would take hours to process itself E.G Supermassive Graphically intensive 3D movie, or something along those lines.
Not to mention the millions of PC’s placed 100% useless, not because they are to slow, but too fast. Almost every computer in the world is too fast for this tech.
Besides the only truly cloud processed system is a gaming system called OnLive, the only thing the console does is decode the images and sound, and display it on the screen. Apart from gaming, and intensive 3D movie production Cloud Computing is a completely useless consept.
I don’t see the would becoming 3D home movie buffs, and Super Extreme Gamers that can’t get the necessary processing power on their own.
Anon
Allen, you are forgetting that computers are useful for applications other then gaming, try having a less narrow minded out look on this topic. Have a look at the list of projects cloud computing that any University is running and see how much processing power is required for them.
We did a project running a huge weather modeling system using distributed computing across university all the universities PCs. It was most certainly a success, although I tend to agree with you that our data rates are still to slow to deal with high data projects. If the amount of data is minimal with respect to the amount of processing required then it is certainly viable.
Peace