Après Mandrake, le nouveau projet de Gaël Duval.
Ulteo Sirius Alpha1 has been released!
Towards an "Application System"?
Internet, December 7th, 2006 - Here is the first public
version of Ulteo! Its codename is "Sirius" because we want
to make it a star.
Ulteo Sirius can be downloaded from the following place:
http://www.ulteo.com/main/download.php
The list of mirrors is going to be updated every time a new
one is available. We ask that if you can host an FTP server
for Ulteo downloads to please register
at the following URL:
http://www.ulteo.com/main/mirrors.php
We remind you that until we are able to get more mirrors
for downloads, your downloads might be a bit slower than
normal. We will add support for torrent downloads/uploads
as soon as we can. If you can help with this, we ask that
you please contact us.
Release notes for Sirius Alpha1 are available at:
http://www.ulteo.com/main/sirius_release_notes.php
Now, just download the liveCD, burn it to a CD and put it
into your PC and boot. Remember, that it is an ALPHA
version software! If everything works as we have planned,
this may be the only Ulteo install you need to perform on
this machine! Why? Read the rest...
Ulteo was designed to ultimately simplify the use of
computers.
We think that users of modern computers spend too muchtime
performing administration tasks such as the few listed
below:
- system installation
- system administration
- system maintenance
- system upgrades
- installation of applications
- upgrade of applications currently on the system
- etc.
As a result, users have to perform tasks that should be
reserved to computer specialists, while we think that users
should just spend time using the applications they need.
Ulteo tries to provide answers to these issues.
The first answer we have is to consider the OS +
applications as a whole system that we could call an
"Application System". This system should:
1- always provide the most up to date stable features
and self-upgrade automatically
2- require no, or very little, administration by the user
3- open users horizon to potentially every application
which exists, the simple way
For this release of Ulteo Sirius Alpha1, we have focused on
the first point. This means that after the first
installation, Ulteo will try to check for any new versions
available if a network connection is available, and
self-upgrade by using an incremental upgrade mechanism.
What this means is that for the next alpha release version,
no installation will be needed. Simply rebooting the
system will be enough to get the new features and bug
fixes.
A new alpha version will follow soon. In particular it will
start to address the second major point of Ulteo. With each
release we hope to explain a new part of the Ulteo "vision"
in greater detail.
Stay tuned and enjoy the first tests!
Gaël Duval & The Ulteo Team.
http://www.ulteo.com
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