OS.js is a simple, yet powerful JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop platform.
A desktop implementation for your browser with a fully-fletched window manager, Application APIs, GUI toolkits and filesystem abstraction.
Visit the official Homepage for more information: https://www.os-js.org/
Or check out the Demo for yourself: https://demo.os-js.org/
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11.18.11 / 5pm
I think this is a great project and you should name it what ever you want. JavascriptOS works for me.
You should checkout a really cool UI toolkit that might help you improve the UI:
– http://cappuccino.org/
Keep it up.
11.18.11 / 6pm
Great work, looking forward to seeing how this matures.
11.18.11 / 8pm
Aesthetic Perfection rocks. Keep up the great work, Anders.
11.18.11 / 8pm
Thanks! And yeah … Aesthetic Perfection ❤
11.18.11 / 8pm
Call it shell.js ! I think this is a sweet project and ChromeOS could take some pointers from it.
BeOS did something similar 10 years ago with the BeIA (internet appliance) but the timing was all wrong (56k modems? CRT displays?)
Looking forward to the public git repo!
11.18.11 / 8pm
Call it VSjS Virtual (Graphical) Session in JS in regard to VNC since it is close to it
or jsWM like a Window manager in javascript
it should be telling all about your solution 🙂
How to have a graphical view on distant server without X or rdesktop 🙂
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11.18.11 / 10pm
Looks interesting but it is GPLv3. That is open source for people who are too insecure to use BSD or a really open license.
11.18.11 / 10pm
So you recommend BSD licence? Please elaborate 🙂
11.20.11 / 3pm
I second the recommendation to use BSD. GPL simply introduces restrictions that will decrease adoption, especially in any commercial setting.
11.20.11 / 6pm
Thnx. I’ll read it through 🙂
11.18.11 / 11pm
Not working on NetBSD. Blue screen (ironic, ain’t it?).
11.18.11 / 11pm
lol. Give me a screenshot and a log output (from browser console)
11.19.11 / 12am
11.19.11 / 12am
Thnx. Noted in TODO 🙂
11.19.11 / 12am
It *does* work in Epiphany on NetBSD. Neat!
11.19.11 / 12am
That’s pretty darn neat for a hobby project. Keep up the good work.
11.19.11 / 1am
This looks pretty cool. I would like a copy of the source so I can mess around with it.
11.19.11 / 1am
As noted in article:
Sources: Stored on Github (Private for now, but it will become Public. If you want to collaborate or look at the sources, send me an e-mail).
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11.19.11 / 4am
Project looks great .. You can name “Hermes” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes or athena ?
Yeah! I’ve been looking for mythological names, but haven’t quite found the right one yet.
11.19.11 / 10am
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11.19.11 / 1pm
really awesome. great idea 😀
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11.19.11 / 4pm
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11.19.11 / 7pm
Great stuff! Congratulations.
One suggestion: override default browser menu everywhere!
11.19.11 / 7pm
thnx! It’s in my TODO 🙂
11.19.11 / 7pm
Seems like you are using the getYear() function for your task bar (111). Using getFullYear() should fix this (2011).
11.20.11 / 7am
Thnx! Now in TODO
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11.20.11 / 6pm
Somebody goatse’d your demo site. Might wanna fix that and lock down that functionality a bit…
11.20.11 / 7pm
Yes… I’ve been hacked. Site down for maintainence. Need to jail the public media Folder!
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11.26.11 / 4pm
I am extremely inspired with your writing abilities as smartly as with the layout in your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you modify it your self? Anyway keep up the nice high quality writing, it is rare to see a nice weblog like this one these days..
12.24.11 / 11am
This is rather mad. And by mad i mean great. Gotta check this out for myself.
12.24.11 / 12pm
Nice work! I recently built a quick version of Ubuntu in JavaScript/HTML/CSS.
http://www.ubuntu.com/tour
It’s built in a similar way to yours but without the database. I meant to built it into a full file system with database storage in the future.
If anything in this demo would help, I’m happy to pass on some code.
Thanks Ant.
12.24.11 / 9pm
Looks and works great! 🙂 I’ve been looking for solutions like that, but you are the first I’ve seen to actually make a online-demo of a distro. Very cool!
12.29.11 / 12pm
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1.10.12 / 4pm
Hello there, I found your website by way of Google even as looking for a comparable topic, your website got here up, it seems great. I’ve added to my favourites|added to bookmarks.
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2.6.12 / 8pm
I’ve just created a new homepage for this project! Also updated the server to 0.5-beta11.
View the complete changelog at the new page 🙂
9.26.12 / 10am
Hey there just wanted to give you a brief heads
up and let you know a few of the pictures aren’t loading correctly. I’m not sure why
but I think its a linking issue. I’ve tried it in two different internet browsers and both show the same results.
10.14.12 / 9am
Can you elaborate ?
10.12.12 / 9am
This is absolutely wonderful! Thanks for posting this
12.16.12 / 1pm
I blog frequently and I genuinely appreciate your content.
This article has truly peaked my interest. I am going to bookmark your site and keep
checking for new information about once a week. I opted in for your RSS
feed too.
12.27.12 / 11am
Hi – Where is the download for os.js. It is not on github or anywhere. Would really like to have a look at this. There is a standalone app for 64 bit linux but this has disappeared.
12.27.12 / 1pm
I’ll be releasing the sources for public when we hit new year. So stay tuned! 🙂
1.2.13 / 1pm
came on let’s release please
1.2.13 / 1pm
I’m finishing up the last steps. It will be out today! 🙂
1.2.13 / 5pm
It’s out!
1.2.13 / 6pm
thanks just see it
1.10.13 / 9am
Can’t login to the demo, all the usernames are said to be taken
1.10.13 / 10am
Sorry about that. I was running out of space. Try again now please 🙂
1.27.13 / 3pm
./bin/application-gen is missing
Nice project, I hope you can continue and maybe even port it to NodeJS.
1.27.13 / 6pm
It’s now ./bin/compile-all
Is there something wrong in documentation ? If so — where ? 🙂
I’m currently creating a Node.JS port. Stay tuned for update!
2.6.13 / 8pm
The node backend has been published to GitHub, so feel free to test it out. Keep in mind it’s not yet complete 🙂
3.7.13 / 11pm
Hey there! I’ve been following your blog for a long time now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Atascocita Tx! Just wanted to mention keep up the excellent work!
5.30.14 / 6pm
I was wondering if you could help with my Web Operating System called Mint. The OS is written in Processing.js. I only have two very basic apps, Clock and calender, but I was hoping you could help me make more, I’m not that good with programming, and I’m only 12, so making new apps is not my strong-point…
5.30.14 / 6pm
Hi! Sure. What do you need help with ? You can contact me on gmail. My username is “andersevenrud”
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