Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virtual-OS

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. - Philippe 02:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Virtual-OS

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Originally deleted as a PROD by myself, but restored and sent here per a request on my talk page. Virtual OS was deleted three times, and seems to be a spin-off of that article. A bit confusing, but I am not so sure this product is notable, and seems to be just a jumble. Jmlk17 07:34, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Strong Keep: Virtual-OS ( virtual-os.com ) refers to an application being developed by Advanced Webhosting Network in Mississauga, Ontario with provincial approval and funding by the Region of Peel. To the best of my knowledge their 2008 release is still in closed beta despite their 1st quarter release projection. I can still access the active 2007 beta support forum at chat.virtual-os.com but there's no additional information about the 2008 beta other than it's only open to Twine users.

The article "Virtual OS" ( coreweb.virtualos.net.eu.org ) which is erroneously referred to in the PROD pertained to an unrelated project by Sin Com (Europe), although I'm assuming that it was discontinued due to trademark infringement regarding the actual application in question.

The Virtual-OS project asserts notability based on a highly publicized security breach in 2006 that spurred a wave of news reports in the Greater Toronto Area regarding "online information privacy" concerns which featured Virtual-OS as a prime example.

Side Note: Ironically, partial snippets of the 2008 "Vixen" source code seem to have been leaked already and can be found via Google, although an official distro package has not been released. http://www.google.ca/search?q=Virtual-OS+Vixen

99.229.222.154 (talk) 08:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

  • 99.229.222.154

is located in ontario[1] and seems to only comment on Virtual OS related topics, especially keeping wikipedia pages from being deleted.

  • Delete for lack of notability. This software is still in development, only available to Twine users, only notable for one thing (and that a bad thing). Of course, this article could be re-created if and when the software gains notability in its own right... as long as the new article doesn't get anything like this tacked on. I don't think that's at all compatible with the GFDL. Sheffield Steeltalkstalk 17:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Wisdom89 (T / C) 18:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Note: The original application use to be publicly available and can still be downloaded from unauthorized mirrors. It's alot like YouOS except you run it on your own server rather than using someone elses service. I also beta tested the closed 2007 revision which required sign up but it didn't have all the features of the original release. Notability wise it was reported on prime time news in Toronto and in the press. Good or bad, either way it seems to me to be significant in the timeline of events relating to remote desktop systems. 99.229.222.154 (talk) 19:14, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete as spam. The disclaimer at the bottom of the article kind of gives it away. This belongs on your own website, not Wikipedia. —BradV 21:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - I can find nothing that makes me think this software is notable: [2] - trivial stuff like answers.com, download.com, company website etc..etc.. Wisdom89 (T / C) 21:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

GFDL Note: I believe the disclaimer that has since been removed in a rather odd flurry of recent edits/vandalism actually granted wikipedia the right/license to unlimited reuse of the Virtual-OS trademark to abide by GNU licensing schemes. 99.229.222.154 (talk) 11:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Search Result Note: The dual exact strings search used by Wisdom89 yield results limited to mentions of BOTH the actual developer and the application; where as queries such as "virtual-os" + "security breach" yield more relevant articles and broader queries such as "virtual os" (with or without quotations) shows that virtual-os.com is the top result above even the monolithic vmware.com and the application is also mentioned in several of the secondary top results out of 9,210,000 google hits for the term (141,000 exact string query). There's also related content indexed in MSN, Yahoo, DMOZ, etc. 99.229.222.154 (talk) 11:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.