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| Цитата | Ulteo Newsletter #1
December, 4th 2006
This is not yet a real newsletter, but this should be considered the first issue of the Ulteo Newsletter anyhow...
First of all, we'd like to express a big public thank you to everyone who has showed their support to Ulteo. This has been absolutely awesome!
So what has happened for all these months, and why aren't any Ulteo products available to the public?
First of all, remember that the Ulteo project is a mix of different concepts, which are supposed to simplify the use of the computer in everyday life.
For most of these ideas, some choices were already done regarding the direction we would take to implement them. But there is a big gap between an idea, or even a demo of this idea, and a full implementation that exists and works.
Furthermore, in April 2006, we realized that we had two different ways we could approach the development of Ulteo:
- Either we would release something in one or two months, by aggressively hacking a Linux distribution, and adding quick & dirty features.
- Or we would bet that the project had a long-term potential, and that we would take the time to build it on clean and solid roots.
We chose the second option. This lead to frustration, both for all people who were interested in Ulteo and for us, the few guys who have been actively developing Ulteo for more than 6 months now.
But for about one month now, we have had a full autobuilder system in place, which can automatically rebuild a full Ulteo system from sources, patches, branding and some configuration files. This means that now we can really concentrate on the development of specific features.
Recently, we also enjoyed many reports from all the alpha-testers who were kind enough to have a look at the first alpha version of the Connected Desktop, a virtual OS which runs within the web browser, and which is a part of the Ulteo concept. This information helped us greatly and it will benefit the future development of the Connected Desktop. These reports will certainly make it easier to make the Connected Desktop a better feature for everyone.
But on the 5th or 6th of December, we are going to release the first installable Ulteo LiveCD (for PC).
At the same time, we are going to unveil the basic ideas behind Ulteo.
For this first alpha release, be prepared to dive a bit inside the system to understand the potential of Ulteo. On the desktop you will find only a few differences with what you can use or see when compared to a graphical environment on other distro's. Maybe then you will understand what makes Ulteo different, and you will start to think about the next steps of development.
Take care.
Ga?l Duval & The Ulteo Team.
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