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Set up a DIY cloud OS on your LAN with eyeOS MiniServer
It really doesn't get any easier to create a DIY server. Download and run the executable, tick a couple checkboxes, and it's ready to go. Other machines on your network can access the server by opening http://hostname:8080 in a supported browser - Firefox, IE, and Chrome all worked nicely.
The usual basic apps are available: web browser, rss reader, bulletin board, contacts, calendar, word processor, calculator, and notepad. There's even a basic chess game.
Unfortunately, the available version is a bit old. Nevertheless, it's still an incredibly easy way to set up a server to provide the system-in-a-browser experience on your own LAN or WAN. It's very light on resources all the way around: the server only used about 11mb on my Vista x64 machine, and there wasn't a significant increase in Firefox's footprint when running the OS in a tab.
If you're after a bit more information, you can check the MiniServer forum on the eyeOS site. It is, however, largely inactive at this point. Download links in this post point to Brothersoft, as I was unable to find any active links on the eyeOS web site.
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James said 4:43PM on 1-09-2009
Where did you get the Mario FF theme?
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DWes said 7:18PM on 1-09-2009
My head is swimming from how senseless this is. Open a web browser, log into a server, open a web browser on that server and use the remote web browser to browse? All of the inconvenience of the cloud with none of the benefits?
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whiskey said 4:04PM on 1-11-2009
yup... You have to think though that this would be geared towards say a dumb terminal running Morphing Morphix Kiosk without any firefox chrome...
Pau said 9:24PM on 1-09-2009
I highly recommend to download & install the new version (1.8) since this one is pretty old. Installing a new version is as easy as installing a web server + php (or a package including all like xampp or app-serv) and eyeOS on it. Instructions on the eyeos wiki - wiki.eyeos.org.
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