Fusion OS

Meyithi · 2011-08-16 00:21:35

Anybody tried this yet? It's intriguing as it includes a Gnome 2 fork.

It might look pretty but development seems to be taking place on a predominantly Windows website and on the official site, I see no sign or mention of source/licence and there is even a claim that the DE will be Fusion OS exclusive

I'm perma-banned from Neowin due to a disagreement with Neowin's largest investor (Stardock) so can't find out any further information unfortunately, but there is an actual download link for beta 3 if anybody is brave enough to try it.

fukawi2 · 2011-08-16 02:55:33

http://www.fusionos.net/

Edit: "Beta 3" is coming soon, but can't find a download for Beta 1 or 2

Edit 2: Is this the same project? http://sourceforge.net/projects/fos/ The SF page says they're based on ReactOS, but the "official" page says Ubuntu 10.10 :-|

Last edited by fukawi2 (2011-08-16 03:00:29)

Meyithi · 2011-08-16 05:10:54

Yup, there seems to be two projects called FusionOS but they aren't related, Fusion OS and Fusion Operating System.

Beta 3 can be downloaded here, looks like the fusionos.net website isn't used any more.

sbfreak · 2011-08-16 07:04:50

The direct download takes me here : http://simplyinnovation.net/fusionos/%3Ca
and the torrent download redirects me to their homepage.

Meyithi · 2011-08-16 08:48:36

Heh, tbh this project seems to be all over the place, but this post on the neowin forums has a valid link.

fukawi2 · 2011-08-16 08:53:03

Meyithi wrote:

Yup, there seems to be two projects called FusionOS but they aren't related, Fusion OS and Fusion Operating System.

Oh good, that won't be confusing

Meyithi wrote:

Heh, tbh this project seems to be all over the place, but this post on the neowin forums has a valid link.

Cool, I'll have a look... They need to get their MIME types right on the server though; clicking download gave me the ISO in "plain text" in my browser window

sbfreak · 2011-08-16 09:43:39

Meyithi wrote:

Heh, tbh this project seems to be all over the place, but this post on the neowin forums has a valid link.

Thanks.No 64 bit version ?

Unia · 2011-08-16 11:23:44

Anyone knows what menu/search bar they're using in their screenshots, on the top-left corner? First pic on www.fusionos.net:
http://www.fusionos.net/wp-content/uplo … evprev.png

fukawi2 · 2011-08-16 12:44:54

Just got the ISO booted in a VM... Overall, very slick I must say. Would love to see their Gnome 2 "fork" spread. Still quite noticeable Ubuntu branding in places though.

Unia · 2011-08-16 12:59:32

fukawi2 wrote:

Just got the ISO booted in a VM... Overall, very slick I must say. Would love to see their Gnome 2 "fork" spread. Still quite noticeable Ubuntu branding in places though.

How did you download it? Their torrent link doesn't work and the iso opens in my browser

fsckd · 2011-08-16 13:13:54

Lmao, it does open in the browser. Right-click save as ftw!

Unia · 2011-08-16 15:17:05

^ Thanks! Just tried it in Virtualbox. I'm interested to see where they take their GNOME2 fork, it works great imo. However, I don't like the fact they just remove the branding and 'claim the software as theirs'.

Btw, the menu/search applet is Cardapio

fukawi2 · 2011-08-17 00:31:07

fsckd wrote:

Lmao, it does open in the browser. Right-click save as ftw!

Yup.. VERY slow download for me though... Took hours! I can usually download a gb in under an hour.

Unia wrote:

I don't like the fact they just remove the branding and 'claim the software as theirs'.

That does seem a little suspicious... I noticed someone asked where the sources are so they could contribute, but the question was ignored... Will be interesting to see how this unfolds

Sathors · 2011-09-14 12:24:23

It's a bit surprising to read in the first paragraph that this system has been built by them from the ground up, when you know that it's Ubuntu based ...

And moreover this App Market is fun too, it will indeed grow very large knowing that every debian package should work flawlessly.

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