On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 07:32 -0500, Jacques Mony wrote:
In fact, it is not a Unix clone... and it's not the goal.
Not by goal, but it's very UNIXish so far.
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From: "Ziggy" <myrmidon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:50 AM
Subject: [Uuu-devel] Why _UNIX_?
> I know it might sound strange to you, but I was wondering - why make
> UUU yet another UNIX clone?
> Although there aren't a lot of descent operating systems right now
> except for UNIX clones and that you don't have something to base this
> operating system on - well, then, why not invent something new instead
> of once again cloning UNIX?
>
> So far, open-source operating system projects only create 'clones of
> another operating system'. It's quite widespread, just look around.
> Why not be different and try something completely different?
>
> Here, I even have a suggestion for you: a new directory structure.
> / is the root drive.
> $DRIVE:/ is a device mounted as a separate tree. Sub-root, if you want
> to call it that way. I suggest you make the device names case sensitive
> - it gives it a whole more "professional" feel to it if it's
> case-sensitive :P
> /Users should contain all the user home directories.
> /Programs should contain programs installed on the machine, each with
> it's own subdirectory in /Programs that will contain the program itself
> - so, let's say we had Photoshop CS on UUU (That's my dream right now)
> it'll be something like - /Programs/Photoshop/ or /Programs/Adobe
> Photoshop/ (Depends on Adobe's wish)
> /System should contain system files.
>
> I think this would make it a whole lot easier for new users, but still
> be friendly towards the old users.
> I also think that we shouldn't center around having a shell for
> everything, but about making sure that the GUI has the same power as the
> command line shell (while still having those GUI-only advantages). This
> will require you to create a windowing system - but , please - not X!
>
> Why GUI? Because as it seems right now, users don't want to work
> command-line only. And even I think that if only there were better GUI
> applications on Linux, as well as shell tools, then I would use a GUI.
> The proof of that is why I like working on MacOS (and BeOS at the time)
> so much, although I'm a heavy shell user. :)
>
> Please, not another UNIX clone..!
>
>
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