2008/2/7, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > They have some useful ideas, but the system stinks too much > of obsolete and unix... and rats.
The stench most of us live in. But very true. > Everything's a file... great, but could we move past text files > with a proprietary syntax, and having to parse them with quick > and dirty hacks? How about a more efficient standard structural > _binary_ format? For all the pipes too? And the shell, kind of > like Microsoft PowerShell, but better? (Instead of piping objects > with a display routine among other things, piping structural data > with specified stylesheet for display kind of like XML files, but > without the inefficient text encoding of XML.) A very interesting idea.. Can't say I've touched powershell. I think idea of a XML like stylesheet for output is a good one. I'd be very interesting to see this shell. > As for the kernel... how about an exokernel? (Or at least what > I've understood it to be: basically the kernel provides only > memory management, with disk pages handled analoguously like > memory pages, abstracting away the actual devices. Even a lot > of the memory management is on user-side, with the kernel just > verifying claims, or so.) As for security, how about an object > capability system (see: EROS, Coytos, CapROS) in user space > outside the exokernel? What about the other kernel tasks? Just handled by other processes in userspace? That'd be very interesting and very cool. Abstraction is very very good. I wouldn't imagine writing an OS that wouldn't include device abstraction (for drives, at the very least). > And the user interface beyond the command line? Vis. Of course we'd probably need much better user input devices. Something like a dataglove would be fantastic. > And so on. I have and there must be more ideas along similar > lines, and if one really started spending time thinking about > it and unifying them, one might be able to come up with a > very nice, clean and flexible design, intead of a random > clusterfuck. Well, you can't NOT have a random clusterfuck with most OSS shit. (/me points at PHP). Not that I don't like OSS, actually, but still. -- Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net // Down at the moment Registered GNU/Linux User #410639
