News

easyOS wins!

By: Devesh Parekh

easyOS has won the award for the best second year project. We will be going to IBM Hursley to take part in the IBM ThinkPad Challenge in October.

Final Mark of 79%

By: Devesh Parekh

easySoft's easyOS scored a final mark of 79%. We drew with another team called Citrus, whose product was a calendar called Minneola. The marking panel have to look at our thesis in more detail to decide which team makes it through to the IBM ThinkPad Challenge!

Version 1.0 Released!

By: Rhys Godfrey

The first fully featured release of easyOS is now available for download. You can get your hands on an MSI installer file from our sourceforge pages here. So what are you waiting for - and when you start using it please let us know what you think so we can keep improving easyOS.

Demo done

By: Devesh Parekh

We did the demo yesterday. It went relatively smoothly but a couple of things didn't go as expected. The demo was followed by a few well-deserved drinks at the local Wetherspoons. We should get the marks in a weeks time!

easyOS RC3 is out!

By: Devesh Parekh

easyOS Release Candidate Three is out! Click on the link below to download it:

Download easyOS RC3 here

New features include

• easyInstaller for quick and simple installation
• easyWizard for quick setup
• easyPlus for adding fun games and other extensions onto easyOS
• easyLauncher to allow children to run pre-approved programs installed on the computer
• Improved parental controls
• Enhanced user interface
• Bug fixes

Documentation and Final Project submitted

By: Devesh Parekh

Our documentation and final easyOS project was submitted recently. We have a presentation to make on Tuesday and after that our projects will be marked! Let's hope we do well

EasyOS 1.0 Coming Soon!

By: Rhys Godfrey, 15:30 2nd May 2006.

The first full release of easyOS will be available from this website, within the next week, so watch this space!

We would like to thank everyone who replied to our questionnaire after the beta release. This has provided us with valuable feedback, which has helped us to improve easyOS before release 1.0