>From my perspective, one reason for an OS like that is you can get away from the file metaphor by using outlining as the governing concept instead. With Internet connectivity, you can be "inside" "contexts," made up of manipulable pieces of other contexts, maybe collaborating with others inside "spaces" rather than documents. One thing about that is it would radically subvert the notions of copyright.
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM, gatesphere <gatesph...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > leo-editor+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<leo-editor%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/leo-editor<http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
