Ixthusdan Posted November 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Gael has suggested that this is a conceptually different approach and we'll see what it's all about eventually. I just hope he doesn't say my computer's bios is no longer needed! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 well, AFAIK, Ix and I are the only ones (here) who have actually seen it :P That just makes you two potential candidates for a long Ulteo review after the secrecy is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 The first stage of alpha testing has been completed. We might see a public beta very soon. I'll keep everyone posted. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 A reliable source has said that we will have an announcement on Monday, December 4. Actually, it could be a reliable rumor! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 The first alpha release of Ulteo will be available on December 5th or 6th. There will also be a detailed announcement of what Ulteo promises as an os. http://www.ulteo.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric.proctor Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 I just think that all the comments like, I just don't think it will work are funny considering in a practical sense, no one knows what the concept is that they are saying won't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 It's because there are other webbased operating systems out there, and most of those actually do not work (well). It is understandable that people will compare a product they never saw, with products similar to it that are already out there. Personally I'm curious, but having tried other webbased OS'es I hope it's more efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 Ulteo OS is not just a web-based OS. That's only part of the whole. I mean, afterall: ...the first Alpha release of Ulteo Sirius will be released as a Live CD (with an installer) to the public.(emphasis mine) You can't really have a livecd with an installer if it's just a web-based OS :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 (edited) 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 Being fair I don't think that was Gael... leastwise in recent years! back then he was in charge mandrake hardware support was very good... probably the best back in 8.x days... either way, I wish him all the luck... p.s. forgot to mention, it might only really work in France as a web based distro...because of bandwidth restrictions in other countries etc. In France 22Mbit download is the norm...within Paris for almost nothing... or actually free.. I have a friend with no PC who bought their package simply for the free phone call and got internet and 100 channels essentially free. (The package is €30, a normal phone line is 15€ without making calls so if you spend more than €15 a mon on calls its actually cheaper even if you don't use the internet or tv channels - same way if you only want the cable channels... or just internet..)... Edited December 5, 2006 by Gowator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 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 Being fair I don't think that was Gael... leastwise in recent years! back then he was in charge mandrake hardware support was very good... probably the best back in 8.x days... pick a really old post to quote why don't you :P that's June. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 pick a really old post to quote why don't you :P that's June. LOL, pick an old distro why don't Ya... :D but seriously I just wanted to point out that Mandrake hardware support used to be really good... back in 8.x days we had over 100+ graphics card vendors ... so I think its comparable and the HW support on Mandr*, at least compared to other mainstream distro's has gone downhill at some point since then... IMHO as Gael and the programmers were squeezed sideways by the business types so I really still have faith in Gael... he and the intial guys did an incredible job and I see no reason he can't do it again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Ulteo Alpha Sirius is out. However, I am asking for help. Ulteo needs more ftp servers for distribution. I am currently downloading at a rather pathetic pace, no doubt because all of us are using the same inadequet machine. If you can offer some space, please let us know at http://www.ulteo.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 I wgot it to my server...here: http://geektyme.org/ulteo/ Please do not widely distribute this address. I do have 2TB of transfer per month but I'd prefer not risking going over that, or putting too much strain on my shared hosting server ;) I'd like to keep the number of people downloading from it rather low, please :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 (edited) http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=3247 How about a review now tyme or Ix ? In the release notes I don't see anything revolutionary. 1- always provide the most up to date stable features and self-upgrade automatically2- require no, or very little, administration by the user 3- open users horizon to potentially every application which exists, the simple way As I read this Ulteo has or will have an auto updater, it will be very user friendly and has or will have wizard and\or menu system which shows some of the applications features. Which one of the desktop distros doesn't provide these? Ok the last one is not common but I've seen a tour (a'la know your Windows better) in Suse 9.0 so it's not new either. Edited December 7, 2006 by dexter11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 (edited) Ulteo Alpha Sirius is out. However, I am asking for help. Ulteo needs more ftp servers for distribution. I am currently downloading at a rather pathetic pace, no doubt because all of us are using the same inadequet machine. If you can offer some space, please let us know at http://www.ulteo.com Ix, I have space but its on a limited access server... I could put it on my home machine but bandwidth would be limited like tyme... and I only have 1Mbit upload, My ISP gives me 10GB free on the backbone, Ive never needed it ... since 1Mbit is OK for my own purposes but Ulteo are welcome to use it... However overall Gael should contact my ISP ... they have a lot of linux mirrors and actively support linux and they are the 2nd largest in France (but growing fast) ... if your in the know then you can have anyone contact me and work out if they want to use the free space while they are sorting out a permanent hosting. Meanwhile I hope they succeed I have every confidence ! Well sent gael an email to see if they want to use the 10GB... Edited December 7, 2006 by Gowator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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