Configuring a GNOME Online Desktop
The GNOME Online Desktop project (http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop) represents a
new way of approaching desktop computing. It acknowledges that peoples??™ stuff (documents, digital
images, videos, and so on) and activities (searches, blogging, e-mail, instant messaging, news feeds,
and so on) are moving from the local hard disk to the Internet.
The first experimental release of the GNOME Online Desktop was distributed with Fedora 8 near
the end of 2007. However, because it is part of the GNOME project, you can expect to see it with
every major Linux distribution before the end of 2008.
The centerpiece of the GNOME Online Desktop project is the sidebar referred to as BigBoard
(http://live.gnome.org/BigBoard). From BigBoard, you consolidate icons and menus to
connect to your online photo services (such as Flickr), retail accounts (such as Amazon), movie
rentals (such as Netflix), and others. It also, however, keeps track of the files and applications you
use locally.
The settings that drive your personal Online Desktop are themselves stored online. A GNOME.org
account can store information about your desktop applications. A Mugshot (www.mugshot.org)
account lets you tie together connections to your online friends and activities.
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