Webupon

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First thing, an online operating system is not like an offline operating system. It runs in a browser which has it’s limitations of course. This is necessary because of security issues. If you give too much power to people, some of them will use it for bad things. Let’s talk about Ghost in this article. Ghost is a free online operating system that let’s you work with your browser just like you were in a real computer. If you click on F11 and put it in Full Screen you will forget you are inside a browser. This online operating system has most things you need in your daily life. It has it’s own email, you can integrate Gmail with it, Google Docs, Zoho, it has many public MP3 files, videos, books, documents, PDFs and more.

After the registration you need to explore it a little bit. Did you find it hard? It’s almost like using Windows. You have the double click feature, the right click feature, a control panel, you have hard disk size and pretty much anything you are already used to.

The new things you will see here are the public files and the software you can install on it. Public files like I talked above are files that people upload and choose to share. It can be music, photos, anything. Now, to install software you need to browse some applications, just like you use Google search to get some free software, and then you install the software you want in your online computer. Gmail works perfectly. One application or another still do not work perfectly but I am sure Ghost will fix this very soon. You can get more disk space by inviting your friends to use Ghost.

What are the limitations of Ghost? It’s the lag internet has, and your own ISP. If you have a very fast internet connection plus your Firefox has Fire-tune putting it at top speed you might not notice too much lag. In this case Ghost is faster than a slow computer working with it’s desktop environment.

What can’t you do with Ghost? For now you cannot do anything that requires astronomic computing power, such as CAD, but I am sure in the future online applications will rule the digital Universe.