Change logs

The API now automatically translate text base on the current system locale setting

Current locales supported:

English: en_GB
French: fr_FR
Vietnamese: vi_VN
More to come...

Update all packages to support the new localization mechanism

Some minor changes:

Font-awesome is used as default icon font for the entire system
Add Setting package for system configuration
Wallpaper, language, VFS and startup applications/services now can be configured via Setting
Bug fix on some packages: File, Market Place
Stability improvement

AntOS web desktop 0.1.11-alpha release

I've started the development of the AntOS web desktop long time ago, but this post is the first official pre-release of the project. The idea on a web-based desktop came when i worked on embed Linux and remote server. These system are often headless, so accessing the resource on these systems is not always obvious. The aim of this project is to develop a client core API that provides a desktop like experience to remotely access resource on the server using web technologies. AntOS is based on jQuery (for the API development) and Riot JS (for the UI), it is first designed to be used along with my antd HTTP(S) server and Lua based server side app, but can be adapted to be used with any server side languages (PHP, etc) and server, by implementing all the system calls API . Basically, application design for the web desktop relies on these system calls to communicating with the server. The API defines the core UI, system calls (to server), Virtual File system, virtual database and the necessary libraries for easing the development of applications. Applications can be developped with coffee/javascript/css without the need of a server side script.

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AntOS 0.2.0a "Localization" release

Change logs

AntOS web desktop 0.1.11-alpha release