AntOS v1.2.0-beta release

After a long testing period, AntOS v1.2.0-beta is now released!!!

Change logs

• Improvement GUI API
  • [x] File dialog should remember last opened folder
  • [x] Add dynamic key-value dialog that work on any object
  • [x] Window list panel should show window title in tooltip when mouse hovering on an application icon
  • [x] Allow pinning application to system panel
  • [x] Improvement application list in market place
  • [x] Allow triplet keyboard shortcut in GUI
  • [x] CodePad allows setting shortcut in CommandPalette commands
  • [x] CodePad should have recent menu entry that remember top n file opened
  • [x] Improve File application grid view
  • [x] Label text should be selectable
  • [x] switch window using shortcut (CTRL+ALT+1, CTRL+ALT+2)
  • [x] Loading bar animation on system panel
  • [x] Multiple file upload support
  • [x] Generic key-value dialog
  • [x] Add bootstrap font support for icons
  • [x] Classify applications by categories in start menu
  • [x] Support vertical and horizontal resize window
• MarketPlace now classifies application by categories
• CodePad is no longer default system application, it has been moved to MarketPlace
• More applications added to MarketPlace
• Antos SDK
  • SDK is no longer included in Antos base release, it can be installed via MarketPlace
  • The SDK now has a generic API that can be used in different development tasks other than AntOS application
  • Heavy SDK tasks are now offloaded to workers
  • Introduce new JSON based syntax for SDK task/target definition
• From this version, docker image of All-in-one AntOS system is available at: https://hub.docker.com/r/xsangle/antosaio

Demo

A demo of the VDE is available at https://app.iohub.dev/antos/ using username: demo and password: demo.

If one want to run AntOS VDE locally in their system, a docker image is available at:
https://hub.docker.com/r/xsangle/antosaio/

AntOS applications (Available on the MarketPlace)

https://github.com/lxsang/antosdk-apps

Documentation

• API: https://doc.iohub.dev/antos/api/
• Documentation: https://doc.iohub.dev/antos (outdated, WIP)

AntOS 1.0.0-alpha

Github: https://github.com/lxsang/antos branch antos-1.0.0a

Demo: https://app.iohub.dev/antos/ using user name and password: demo/demo

If one wants to run AntOS VDE locally in their system, a docker image is available at:
https://github.com/lxsang/antosaio

API Documentation: https://doc.iohub.dev/antos

It has been a long time since version 0.x.x and now AntOS hits a major changes in its API. From version 1.0.0, AntOS no longer depends on Riot.js in its core UI API. This version introduces a brand new AntOS UI API called AFX API which is rewritten from bottom up. The entire AntOS core API is rewritten in Typescript (from Coffeescript) for better debugging, code maintenance and documenting.

Browser support: tested on Chrome, Firefox and partly Safari. Any browser that supports custom elements API should work. May have problem with Microsoft Edge.

AntOS v 0.2.4-alpha release

I have too many work in the last few months and don't have time to deal with some known bugs of AntOS until now. This v0.2.4-a release focuses on improvement and bugs fix

Project page: https://github.com/lxsang/antos
Demo: https://app.iohub.dev/antos/
AntOSDK tutorial: https://blog.iohub.dev/r:id:20

Applications developed using AntOSDK can be found on this repository: https://github.com/lxsang/antosdk-apps. They can be used as example projects for AntOSDK

Change logs

• Improve API code
• Fix the menu UI not updating/refreshing bug. This bug affects some applications: MarketPlace, AntOSDK
• Fix the fileview UI updating automatically when its window title changes. This bug affects following applications: NotePad, AntOSDK
• Fix the setting bug in File and release new version
• Fix bug on MarketPlace and release new version
• Fix bug on NotePad and release new version
• Fix bug on AntOSDK and release new version

WARNING: Due to some recent attacks on my server, the web terminal access is disabled for the user: demo. Someone tried to run a TOR relay on my server using that user, so i decided to disable the terminal access on the demo user. You can still login, but you can't use the shell

AntOS v 0.2.3-alpha release: AntOSDK - a development kit for AntOS application

A new release of AntOS, it is now in the beta state, but i'll keep the alpha branch on the release for a few further releases.

Change logs

• Fix bugs and improve stability
• DotEditor app is renamed to GraphEditor and use mermaid to generate graphs instead of dot
• AntOS in now under GPLv3 licence, if you want to use it for comercial purpose, please contact me
• Blogger is no longer default application, it is moved to MarketPlace
• Add svg support to Preview
• MarketPlace now can detect if an application update is available
• Add AntoSDK, a development kit that allows to develop, build, and package your own application right in the browser, it is available on MarketPlace
• New UI elements: afx-slider, tooltip

AntOS 0.2.0a "Localization" release

AntOS 0.2.0-alpha is out now. The big change in this release is the support of localization. The UI now support multi-languages rendering based on the current system locale setting.

Github: https://github.com/lxsang/antos
Demo: https://app.iohub.dev/antos/

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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