Ixthusdan Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 We may see a beta of Ulteo Linux coming on May 15th. Not sure what it is yet except that it is a brain-child of Gael Duval. Welcome players! Check for it HERE. The forum is HERE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakish Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 (edited) woow..it seems nice and full of suspense..lol eager and curious to know how it would be B) Since it is targeting at "ease of use" for a pc", i guess there is full implementation of HCI to make a really user-friendly distro..very curious to see that.. it would perhaps emphazise more on that aspect than in providing a variety of softwares..etc.. Basically perhaps a simple, easy to use linux based pc for anyone..to ease "pc learning process" ??!! Thanks for the info Ixthusdan! (btw if you happen to try the beta soon, lets us know about it) Edited May 14, 2006 by wakish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 I copy Gael's message from the ulteo.org forum just make it clearer may 15th is the earliest date. Not before the 15th May. When I started Mandrake, it took me 6 months to have a first release available, and it was way less complicated than Ulteo. For Ulteo, I just want to release a beta as a proof of concept (with just basic services running), and I'm full time on it, but hey... I have to learn Debian in depth wink Any help is welcome! Gaël. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 The Ultro.com home page has now updated to "summer 2006" for the date of the first beta. So it looks like we are looking at June-July-August now. Anticipation (it's a song) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Posted today. Hi everybody - ulteo.com is down again. Actually it seems that the hosting service Canaca.com is totally down. We have to cross fingers and wait. Very fortunately, we have asked for the transfert of ulteo.com domain name to a new registrar and have a new web server ready to serve. So if we can access the DNS parameters soon, ulteo.com may be back before the Canaca hosting company :-) (again, I wouldn't recommend them at all) Other good news: the first Ulteo liveCD - which will be the core of the Ulteo architecture - should be ready as an alpha download by the end of next week. For this "event" I'll describe what is different in Ulteo when we release it. All services around the Ulteo OS and the full concept will be unveiled progressively after Alpha or Beta stage. Gaël. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 i'm curious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Me, too. Especially I wonder what parts of Debian he will use and which he will drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Me three..... Honestly, be nice to see what Gael can do with a debian platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Vaporware! im betting it'll be some silly web2.0 thingy that uses the internet for far too much. I'm also expecting hardware support to be mediocre, if Gael's work on mandrake/iva is anything to go by. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 iph, only non-techies use the term "web 2.0" :P and if he bases it on debian, i think that has better hardware support than RH which Mandrake was based on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 iph, only non-techies use the term "web 2.0" :P and if he bases it on debian, i think that has better hardware support than RH which Mandrake was based on. hence me calling it "silly web 2.0 thingy". and as for hardware support... that depends more on each distro's implementation, what modifications they make to the kernel, what extra drivers they provide, how much research they put into finding extra drivers, what updates applied, what versions.... and then there's the detection system chosen... I can't remember what I used on debian when I used it, I think I just manually specified mine, so I havnt really got anything to say about it's detection... been a while since i used it. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 even when you call it a "silly web 2.0 thingy" hardly anyone would know what you are talking about. heck, even the marketspeak people who made it up don't know what they're talking about :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 I do not know what Alteo is, but I do know that the Image Monster (Microsoft) has been pushing things that I do not like. Yet, the marketers are busy convincing the public that "on-line" software is what they need. So, if linux has a version to this marketing that is Open Source, what's wrong with that? People are swayed by the hype. Don't fight the hype, just take advantage of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmut Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 (edited) I'm curious too and continue to follow developments closely. May good fortune be with the team, and let the monster's greed make it devour itself Helmut Edited June 16, 2006 by Helmut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 web 2.0, to me, is just a sort of "idea", mainly in my mind it refers to web site design...but then i don't really care... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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