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henniedebeer

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I am in Cape Town for a few weeks, and was wondering if anyone knows how to get in contact with the Cape Town Linux User Group, or any Linux users in Cape Town. The CLUG site is only a wiki and wiki's are confusing. Too many words. I am part of the video game generation.

I am looking for an easy to use cloud operating system. Can anyone recommend something that doesn't end in *buntu?
 
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"Easy to use cloud operating system". lol, its right next to the easy to use large hydrogen colider.
 
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ponder said:
Try http://peppermintos.com/

Click on the CLUG Members Pages to contact individuals or post in the mailing lists http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/CLUG_Mailing_Lists
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This Peppermint looks really cool. I will give it a try as soon as Chromium finishes downloading. If it's familiar to someone who's used Linux Mint, then there will be no problem.

I started playing around with gOS last year, but it was discontinued, so no reason to keep it. But a cool idea altogether.

And it's not that I don't want to read, I've been spoilt by Youtube and podcasts.
 
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I'm confused with what you mean by "cloud operating system." What are you hoping to do? Are you wanting to host your own cloud platform? Or are you simply looking for a desktop OS?
 
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koffiejunkie said:
I'm confused with what you mean by "cloud operating system." What are you hoping to do? Are you wanting to host your own cloud platform? Or are you simply looking for a desktop OS?
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I think he means a small footprint OS geared for relying mostly on cloud based apps & services.
 
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When people say "cloud" I tend to think of a grid environment or Nebula. Definitely some reading involved there.

It doesn't even have to be that fancy, it could just be some WebDAV enabled server that allows people to collaborate and upload documents. Unfortunately, there is some reading involved in setting that up too.

I think what you're really after is a web desktop like eyeOS or CorneliOS. I haven't installed eyeOS myself, but there will also be some reading involved in installing CorneliOS.
 
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eyeOS looks really nice. I might look at it later. Right now I have more than enough toys to play with.

Since I don't really play games on a PC anymore (bloody XBox), a simple OS is all I need. I use Google docs most of the time, so a cloud operating system should suffice.

As of earlier today, I am running Chromium OS. I've installed it on my hard drive and I am NOT removing it anytime soon.
 
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koffiejunkie said:
I'm confused with what you mean by "cloud operating system." What are you hoping to do? Are you wanting to host your own cloud platform? Or are you simply looking for a desktop OS?
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ponder said:
I think he means a small footprint OS geared for relying mostly on cloud based apps & services.
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fskmh said:
When people say "cloud" I tend to think of a grid environment or Nebula. Definitely some reading involved there.

It doesn't even have to be that fancy, it could just be some WebDAV enabled server that allows people to collaborate and upload documents. Unfortunately, there is some reading involved in setting that up too.

I think what you're really after is a web desktop like eyeOS or CorneliOS. I haven't installed eyeOS myself, but there will also be some reading involved in installing CorneliOS.
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i am also interested. also to understand why the structure maybe be beneficial

edit - also why this is cheaper than cost of the hard drive?
 
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milomak said:
i am also interested. also to understand why the structure maybe be beneficial

edit - also why this is cheaper than cost of the hard drive?
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I would've first questioned it based on the costs of internet access/traffic. Assuming that is not a problem, the ability to collaborate on documents "in the cloud" without worrying about viruses/malware/local revision control and where you left your flash drive is quite a compelling motivation.

What I find ironic about the whole cloud paradigm is that it's reminiscent of the 70(?)s with mainframes and thin clients. Back when storage was too expensive for ordinary plebs to have their own hard drives. Except it's like a thin client that does have some form of storage, 3D graphics, wireless, multiple core CPU and interwabz. :erm:

I suspect that most people would like the ability to be able to connect to a corporate VPN cloud thingy, as well as use a dedicated offline OS with local storage, and not something like Jolicloud where the OS requires the cloud as part of its functionality.
 
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