{"id":1809,"date":"2006-08-24T07:11:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=54"},"modified":"2006-08-24T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T12:11:23","slug":"youos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/youos.html","title":{"rendered":"YouOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> and a team from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a> comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youos.com\/\">YouOS<\/a>, an experimental &#8220;web operating system&#8221; which basically gives you a computer desktop that you access through your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this significant?  This is more than your basic web 2.0 site, or a remotely hosted application:  this could mean a change in how we approach public access computers.  With stripped down hardware (motherboard, processor, minimal memory, monitor, mouse, keyboard, high-speed internet access) you can have a full-fledged system without needing to maintain the operating system and related software at the computer itself.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.  Sign up for an account and see how it works.  Remember that this is not only experimental software, but they are at the alpha stage of development&#8230; don&#8217;t expect Windows Vista visual quality or Linux stability.<\/p>\n<p>By the way&#8230; this may settle the debate going on for the past few years about whether Google has an interest in developing operating systems and competing in that arena.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osdir.com\/Article9215.phtml\">OSDir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the folks at Google and a team from MIT comes YouOS, an experimental &#8220;web operating system&#8221; which basically gives you a computer desktop that you access through your web browser. Why is this significant? This is more than your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/youos.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2934,2966,2977],"tags":[3063,3064,5350,3065,3036,3066,3037,3067,3068],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-software","category-web-design","tag-basic-web","tag-experimental-software","tag-google","tag-high-speed-internet-access","tag-linux","tag-mit","tag-operating-system","tag-operating-systems","tag-web-browser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sSU5g-youos","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}