not long ago was unveiled the new project of Ex-Madrake Guy Gaël Duval, in which he claimed he was going to achieve extreme simplicity in a new operating system and break the barriers for end users. Sometime Gaël was intended only to develop a Web operating system, knowing that there were some present in the market that have passed through the hands of users unnoticed. However, the project was aimed to achieve a product that offers the people of Ulteo, Ulteo Online Desktop
This "Web Desktop" can find many of our favorite applications like OpenOffice, The Gimp, Kopete, Firefox, etc. . Notably, this Web OS is based on java, so you must have installed the Sun VM on your computer and on the other hand also I must clarify that being a web operating system, the response time not very good, but it is the best example of a system of this type.
Here I leave some screenprints of my Ulteo Online Desktop session
On the other hand, another product that has caught much attention, and which I decided to spend some time, was Ulteo Virtual Desktop. This software allows to launch applications, GNU / Linux system Windows XP or Vista. The applications run nearly as fast as any Microsoft application Nativi of enabling users to work with them regardless of operating system.
According to the website of the project, these are some of the applications supported by Ulteo Virtual Desktop:
- Firefox web browser enabled with Flash & Java
- The full OpenOffice.org office suite That Can deal with your MS
- Kpdf Office documents to deal with your PDF documents
- Kopete: the multi-Instant Messaging Software That Supports MSN and Skype Other protocols
- Thunderbird + Enigmail (so you CAN encrypt your emails!)
- Gimp and Digikam to manage your pictures
- Inkscape and Scribus to create great graphics and newspapers
- and ... Many Others!
Ulteo Virtual Desktop Requires a PC (x86-based) with a modern 32-bit CPU and at least 512MB RAM. At least 4 GB of free HD space is required. A PDF reader is needed. For a Better experience, we recommend a DualCore CPU and 1GB RAM. Ulteo Virtual Desktop has-been tested successfully on Windows XP and Windows Vista (32-bit only for now).
Another interesting product of this project is Ulteo Documents Synchronizer allows us to make backups of your files online and have them available at any time.
To conclude we can say that the Ulteo team is trying to take his place in the market for simple and reliable Linux solutions, providing basic utilities for every user and other aggregates that can provide a complete solution regardless of whether our system is operating Linux, MS or a simple Web Browser.