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.
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