As the subject states, this is most likely an absolutely insane idea
(for a variety of reasons), but it's a neat thought experiment at least.
I'm imagining a Leo-based operating system. Well, rather, a distro of
some GNU/Linux setup which replaces the init scripts with leo outlines,
containing scripts, run by a small python feeder script using
leoBridge. Filesystem access would be with EKR's FUSE/LeoFS work from
the wiki. The only GUI would be a minimal WM (perhaps OpexBox? IceWM?
I'm imagining it could be the lightest-weight thing possible) which
immediately opens an un-closable Leo instance.
To make this a decent experience, it would need a few things from Leo:
1) Way to embed an interactive shell in Leo (half working on one myself)
2) Way to embed a minimal web browser in Leo (seems simple enough,
honestly, as Terry's richtext.py shows - things like bookmarks and
history would be naturally expressed as trees)
3) A plugin to handle email in a Leonine fashion (I have some ideas for
this brewing in my head as well)
4) A package manager, somehow integrated into Leo (@buttons could do the
trick - no need to change core for that, really)
Basically it would be a boot-to-Leo system. A bit pointless in the long
run as full OS users can already do everything they want, and more, but
I can totally imagine this having a place on the newfangled ultrabooks
and such that companies are pushing out. I know I'd use it on my
laptop, because honestly I do all my work in Leo as is...
Thoughts?
-->Jake
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