About eyeOS and web axes. Usage example

I fulfill the old promise and tell how I use eyeOS as a system of personal accounts.

I was interested in web axes, quite accidentally reading the article “Deimos Stentall’s Best WebOS” www.Xakep.ru/post/41262/default.asp one and a half years ago on the website of Hacker magazine.
Since I collect all kinds of web exotics, I immediately went through all the links in the article and downloaded eyeOS (then you could only download it, since the rest of the systems were not available for download). Version 1.2 was still raw and rather buggy, with weak functionality. Having twisted it, I abandoned this idea for a long time. The main ideas are “against” - why use web, if there are normal ordinary operating systems and in general, what practical application can you think of?
I returned to this idea completely by accident. There was a task - to raise the corporate office web server in the corporate network. So, raising a server and placing another mirror of my portal there, I started solving one of the people's requirements to organize file sharing with a web interface and access sharing for arbitrary temporary users (in more detail, we have several thousand users all over the network, some of them need to be given temporary access for file sharing, access should be divided into groups and individual users, the validity of access is limited). It is clear that this can be done via FTP, but imagine regular administration work ...
Having thought it over, I decided to write a couple of additional modules to the portal and then I remembered eyeOS.
The new version, downloaded from www.eyeos.org, pleasantly impressed with the abundance of functionality, a large number of so-called. "Third-party applications" ( eyeos-apps.org ) or simply additional programs that can be installed into the system, as well as with the Russification package. The only thing that was quite a big minus for users, the manual was available only in English, but I corrected it :) (see IEugene.habrahabr.ru/blog/59327 ). In the same post (Russian translation of documentation from offsite) you can approximately get acquainted with its capabilities.
So, putting the webbing, I got for my purposes:
- personal account system for users;
- the ability to adminit users as you like, knocking them into groups and assigning access rights;
- the ability for users to communicate with each other and share files of any type;
- the possibility of user collaboration on documents.
Yes, of course, there are solutions also through forums, file sharing, etc., but: for a not very prepared user who had little experience with the Internet and web applications to log in and see the native desktop, as in any normal Axis, run similar to ordinary applications outweighs all possible advantages of other solutions. It is clear that in this case we hammer nails with a microscope, but I believe that in case of lack of time and availability of ready-made open-source software, this option has the right to exist.