I wrote a while back about eyeOS, the open source web desktop and the benefits for web workers in a post titled 8 Ways EyeOS Can Help You in Business. In case you are still in the dark as to what eyeOS is refer to that page. In this post I am going to show you step-by-step how to get eyeOS installed, in this case on a Dreamhost webhosting account. It’s fairly easy.

1. Download the eyeOS application from eyeos.org

2. Unzip and upload the contents of the “eyeOS” directory to your directory of choice.

3. Now in your browser, go to the /installer/index.php file to access the Installation Wizard

4. Be sure to setup your root password to something you will both remember and will be difficult for someone to hack into.

5. That’s it! You should now have eyeOS working perfectly on your Dreamhost server. You are presented with a login screen. Remember that the main username is ‘root’ and the password is the password you just created.

As you can tell that was ridiculously easy! That’s because thanks to the team over at Dreamhost, all of the necessary pre-configurations that eyeOS requires are already in place on your server. This saves a ton of time and headache and makes eyeOS literally this easy and quick to install.

Have any of you setup your web desktop yet with eyeOS? What do you think?