Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Eric Schuele
I think this has already been done. And they called it Darwin... a.k.a Mac OS X http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey! i'm curious about all these new operating systems, that all claim to be the next generation. there are many out there. plan9, hurd, eros, m

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/27/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > To bring UNIX to the masses one of the first things we need to do is > > make installing and running apps easy. Right now we are in what once > > was called "DLL Hell" in

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: To bring UNIX to the masses one of the first things we need to do is make installing and running apps easy. Right now we are in what once was called "DLL Hell" in windows 3.x, is this the best we can do? Hard drive space is a non issue today s

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Nikolas! > > >Hey don't bash plan9, they have some cool ideas and unix would not > >exist if it wasn't for bell labs (AT&T back then) but mainly I > >just like glenda (the one in the space suit), can we change the > beastie > >to

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: freebsd as the basis

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm sure we could do something innovative with: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival for instance, just having a hot voice reading my command outputs would already be darn cool to me. I worked there for a while, and know a couple of the people who worked on t

RE: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread el-sino
>A! > >Why are you guys still beating the GUI interface? That is so 70's >computing technology. The real next generation OS will be >voice command. Until then it's just more Window dressing. It's >like the Emperor's new clothes - the little boy said "Computer >please get me a drink of

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: freebsd as the basis for something better? > >> > >> > >>>a project where real unix would meet real life, or where open > >>>source would meet open minds -- would have to ma

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton >>Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:10 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: freebsd as the b

RE: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton >Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:10 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: freebsd as the basis for something better? > >> a project w

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey! > > i'm curious about all these new operating systems, > that all claim to be the next generation. > > there are many out there. plan9, hurd, eros, movitz. and many > vaporware projects as well, such as lainos. but they all want t

freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-26 Thread el-sino
hey! i'm curious about all these new operating systems, that all claim to be the next generation. there are many out there. plan9, hurd, eros, movitz. and many vaporware projects as well, such as lainos. but they all want to reinvent the wheel. i think this approach is wrong. instead, we shou