Your dream OS.

[StealthArcher]

I dunno, I was bored and decided to ask the site what they would like to see should someone ever try to make yet another operating system.

No doubt it would probably cost money though. (So what I guess, Dan would still burn it and pass'm around.)

Anyway, list off features and reasons for them. Maybe it'll become a full fledged discussion. For once, in my threads.

Only Rule:

-No "GPL v. Whatever", we get it, it's nice to have free stuff we can rip apart and remold.\

I'll contribute once I get home, gotta go hop the bus.

[Insectoid]

My OS would incorporate neural interfacing . No more mice! Just a curser you move with your mind! (like star wars, but different)

[md]

I've already written an extremely basic kernel... but that's far from an entire OS.

[apomb]

OSX

[Dan]

My dream os:

• Could run any aplication from windows, linux, unix, osx, any nix and it's own apps with out emulation, wine or vritual machnes.
  
  
• Complied form source and automaticaly optmizied for the hardware.
  
  
• Free and open source (i did not say GPL :p).
  
  
• Have a package mangment system with both comand line and GUI interface that every application i could ever need and then some and complies and optimizes from source (if the application is open source other wise install binarry).
  
  
• Easy installer but at the same time having advanced options and complies from source. Supporting both network install and install from any media.
  
  
• Full proof security.
  
  
• Easy networking that is comabtle with other OSs. Network prtinging and network shares working out of the box.
  
  
• A great user and devlopment community with full and very detialed documentation, user fourms, wiki's, mailing lists, irc rooms, etc.
  
  
• Run on anything with a cpu and some memeory.
  
  
• Be comabtable with any hardware and if the drivers are not included be able to automaticly find and download the right ones and install them.
  
  
• Be scable to the size of a floopy or expandable to many dual layer dvds with all kinds of packages and applications.
  

There are some other things too but i don't want to fill up this topic by my self :p

[Tony]

I think this calls for a better definition of what scope the term "OS" covers. An Operating System is something that interfaces with hardware. It manages memory. It writes to the hard drive, and determines how those bits make up a file system. md is right there, with a core kernel. And it builds up from there.

What we interact with and "see" the most of are our Desktop Environments. Your Gnome vs. KDE. vs. whatever.

Neural Interfacing is a peripheral. It's an additional piece of hardware you plug into your USB 3.0 slot and have the vendor write the drivers.

[StealthArcher]

Dan @ Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:43 pm wrote:

My dream os:

• Could run any aplication from windows, linux, unix, osx, any nix and it's own apps with out emulation, wine or vritual machnes.
  
  
• Complied form source and automaticaly optmizied for the hardware.
  
  
• Free and open source (i did not say GPL :p).
  
  
• Have a package mangment system with both comand line and GUI interface that every application i could ever need and then some and complies and optimizes from source (if the application is open source other wise install binarry).
  
  
• Easy installer but at the same time having advanced options and complies from source. Supporting both network install and install from any media.
  
  
• Full proof security.
  
  
• Easy networking that is comabtle with other OSs. Network prtinging and network shares working out of the box.
  
  
• A great user and devlopment community with full and very detialed documentation, user fourms, wiki's, mailing lists, irc rooms, etc.
  
  
• Run on anything with a cpu and some memeory.
  
  
• Be comabtable with any hardware and if the drivers are not included be able to automaticly find and download the right ones and install them.
  
  
• Be scable to the size of a floopy or expandable to many dual layer dvds with all kinds of packages and applications.
  

There are some other things too but i don't want to fill up this topic by my self :p

Well, I must say, you hit the head for me. Missing only one line:

*Runs Games. Though I suppose this falls under point one, people often don't include this in "Any Application".

[Dan]

StealthArcher @ 22nd September 2008, 11:36 pm wrote:

Well, I must say, you hit the head for me. Missing only one line:

*Runs Games. Though I suppose this falls under point one, people often don't include this in "Any Application".

Well in this case by applications i mean any software for any OS, however i might as well add full 3d aclleration with out any set up

[btiffin]

Canadian; Built by one or more of you lot.

Which you give away, but still end up making millions. That'd be a dream OS.

For now GNU/Linux, Debian.

Cheers

[StealthArcher]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10048142-56.html



Hmmm. Seems like Microsoft might be catching on to some of our points. Though it's still locked up like a safe. (Still easier to mess with than OSX though)

[[Gandalf]]

Ugh, they decide to remove everything except what's important; Internet Explorer. Makes sense, I guess.

Quote:

desire to issue new operating system releases more quickly than it has in the past

Interesting...

Oh and as for my OS... Fast, lightweight, well supported (hardware, applications, development, generally 'open'). That's pretty much it.

[Insectoid]

Wow, January 2010?

[StealthArcher]

Yep, I guess they figured out that when you pull an XP (5+ years) people get very reluctant to move on. Didn't help that Vista prior to SP1 was a pile of deep-fried crap.

[Insectoid]

Deep-fried crap? Gourmet manure!

[jbking]

I'd like a machine that works as a nondeterministic Turing machine that makes security an interesting challenge for people in the next century combined with a neural interface that allows me to connect when I want, how I want. Movies like the Matrix, eXistenz, and Vanilla Sky would be examples of worlds that my dream OS operates in.

What a dream, eh?