antOS v2.0.0

Warning: v2.0.0 is the experimental version of AntOS which is strongly redesigned to support mobile device. For a plus stable AntOS system, please use v.1.x for production.

AntOS is a web-based desktop platform that provides an all-in-one solution for setting up a cloud-based, self-hosted working environment. It features a backend API and services, a front-end web-based window manager, application APIs, a GUI toolkit, and file system abstractions. It also includes an application store and an SDK for in-browser application development, deployment, and packaging. AntOS is designed to work across devices, including desktop computers and mobile devices.

AntOS can be used in several application contexts, such as:

• Providing visual tools to access and control resources on remote servers and embedded Linux environments
• Providing and developing SaaS web-based applications
• Self-hosting a cloud-based working environment
• Creating a customized, user-friendly interface for managing and interacting with cloud-based resources and services
• Setting up a collaborative, online workspace for remote teams and distributed organizations
• Building a web-based operating system that can run on various devices, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones
• Creating a virtualized environment for testing and deploying web-based applications in a sandboxed environment
• Building a platform for creating and hosting web-based educational or training content
• Setting up a web-based development environment for prototyping and building web-based applications quickly and easily
• Etc, You name it!

With the provided application API and SDK, AntOS facilitates the development and deployment of user-specific applications inside the VDE environment

Github: https://github.com/lxsang/antos

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://github.com/lxsang/antosaio

AntOS applications (Available on the MarketPlace)

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

Documentation

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

Change logs

v.2.0.0

• Work In Progress: The UI is redesigned to support mobile device

V1.2.1

• 9b5da17 - App name now can differ from pkgname
• b381294 - fix: fix icon display problem when application is installed, remove all related settings when an application is uinstalled
• b6c90e5 - update image path in readme
• 14b72ef - Fix dragndrop bug on Fileview (grid mod)
• c96919e - fix: correct jenkins build demo stage
• 1cf7181 - Fix fileview status incorrect, add more build stage to Jenkinsfile
• 255f9dc - update readme file, and include it to delivery
• d08b33a - fix ar generation problem: with new version format
• da5bbda - Allow to set version number and build ID to the current Antos build
• 699c697 - update login form style
• 2fd4bb5 - Bug fix + improvement
• 6cbb463 - Fileview: list view display modified date instead of mime
• f7081ae - Include current Antos version to login screen
• 5d17c42 - Makefile read current version from gcode
• 583a0c0 - update version number in code
• c0603cd - Minor style fixes on menus and dropdown list
• 8b029c2 - fix minor visual bug on grid view, list view and tree view
• 86bcaf9 - visual bug fix on label: inline block by default
• 61de957 - Visual improvements
• 52af4b6 - fix visualize bug after style changes
• e63cae1 - style improvement on Label, FileView, GridView, system menu and app Panel
• f97a45b - Add more control to mem file + bug fix on File
• fdcc5ce - allow to create memory-based temporal VFS file system
• 81d78aa - robusify VFS mem file handling
• d109d6a - fix: file name display inconsitent between views
• c26e27d - Fix multiple dialogs focus bug
• 8b23ebe - Loading animation is now based on the current context (global or application context)
• 2cdd8f9 - support dnd and grid sort
• 079af3b - fix type conversion error in gridview tag
• a6d725e - User a custom tag to manage the desktop instead of GUI
• 0624f42 - API improvement & bug fix: - subscribed global event doesnt unsubcribed when process is killed - process killall API doesnt work as expected - improve core API
• 3a24df1 - update announcement system
• e345a61 - update bootstrap icons to v.1.7.1
• b3d38cc - allow multiple files upload in single request
• 66e96cc - update VFS API
• 86a94a8 - update GUI API
• 27ac7c0 - Minor bug fix on desktop handling
• 99e0d02 - enable setting blur overlay window
• 52709d5 - improve Window GUI API
• 9c06d88 - AntOS load automatically custom VFS handles if available
• c23cb1b - Improve core API: - improve OS exit API - improve VFS API

V.1.2.0 Improvement GUI API

• File dialog should remember last opened folder
• Add dynamic key-value dialog that work on any object
• Window list panel should show window title in tooltip when mouse hovering on application icon
• Allow pinning application to system panel
• Improvement application list in market place
• Allow triplet keyboard shortcut in GUI
• CodePad allows setting shortcut in CommandPalette commands
• Improvement multi-window application support
• CodePad should have recent menu entry that remember top n file opened
• Improve File application grid view
• Label text should be selectable
• switch window using shortcut
• Loading bar animation on system pannel
• Multiple file upload support
• Generic key-value dialog
• Add bootstrap font support for icons
• Class applications by categories in start menu
• Support vertical and horizontal resize window

• Market place 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 base Antos 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

Licence

Copyright 2017-2022 Xuan Sang LE

AnTOS is is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, see the LICENCE file for more information

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

For comercial use, please contact author