BrowzOS

The Web Browser's Operating System

Introduction And Overview

Welcome to BrowzOS!

BrowzOS is an online project whose chief goal is to address an encourage the creativity of aspiring web designers and applet programmers. Namely, the goal of BrowzOS is to give web designers and applet programmers a solid base for their web-related projects; a simulated operating system in which programmers and designers can create, display and run any web applet of any kind, using any programming language and any scripting language. Due to the fact that this project is a simulated operating system, BrowzOS especially encourages Java programmers (from novices to professionals) to create applets whose functionality extends across both the web server's and the client computer's file system.

With the ever-evolving functionality and popularity of the internet, this project presents a great opportunity that anyone can take advantage of; this project is OPEN-SOURCE AND IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. This means a number of things:

- For hobbyist web designers, BrowzOS can be freely downloaded, modified and used for such things as presenting résumés, pictures, videos and music through the free/open-source applets included in the main package. Setting up the site is simple and is merely a matter of time to fully implement.
- For novice/professional web designers and programmers, this project can not only be used as a testing facility for other open-source applet projects, but can also present the resulting creations in a manner that familiarly resembles the look and feel of a mainstream operating system (such as GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows). Since the simulated environment is completely user-customisable, multiple applets can be created, displayed and executed from within the web browser in a matter of minutes. BrowzOS can even be customised for use as a free/charitable online service to ease various education/business-related undertakings in which collaboration is a necessity.
- For educational institutions, non-governmental organisations, governments of developing nations and charitable organisations, this project can be used as a collaboration tool, easing any undertaking in which project planning, research, documentation and constant communication between team members is a must.
- For the average computer user, this project (and the included/resulting applets) can be used in hopes of providing a better computing environment. With such applets whose functions fully replicate word processors, music players and various other items that would otherwise be found on an ordinary desktop computer's operating system, BrowzOS will reduce (or hopefully, eliminate) the user's need to search for and install trial software, bloatware, pirated programs and programs which are potentially malicious to both the computer and its user.

Currently, this project comes packaged with a word processor, scientific calculator, instant messenger, media player, clock and a tidy user interface, reminiscent of both Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Hopefully, this project will inspire others to contribute, be it for fun or for providing a much needed public service, as intended by the concept of truly free and open-source software.

Happy computing!

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