On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:03:48AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 > Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, all you BSD hackers! > > > > A major change to the "file-folder-desktop" metaphor is long > > overdue, and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large > > and growing "child" -- is the perfect place to start the > > revolution... ;-) > > Do you envision this as an actual new filesystem, or strictly as a > user interface 'view' onto the filesystem? A filesystem with > extensible attributes might be a good companion to such a system, > where you can tag a file with one or more attributes, then sort and > view the files by attribute.
This is, essentially, BFS from BeOS. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24648.html If the technology makes a significant reemergence I would expect it come in the reverse direction -- from Apple, since they now employ Dominic Giampaulo. Brandon D. Valentine -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geekpunk.net "Everyone's been sold American. Don't let me catch you laughing when the jukebox cries...Everything's been sold American. No place to go and brother, no place to stay." -- Kinky Friedman, "Sold American" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
