The Perfect OS

[the_leander]

Interesting and wordy read.


I've been jotting down a few ideas on how to 'evolve' an OS. I've come to the conclusion that you should write an OS that adapts itself to the way you think. Something forgiving for 'dumb' users. Something complex for 'smart' users. It should remain ubiquitous.

I shall keep the rest of my ideas secret so I can become a patent troll. lol

The problem with the concept of a perfect OS is that perfect in this case is very individual. To this day I consider BeOS to be about the closest to perfection I ever came across (though I have to say I did miss Magellen's configurability in some respects verses Trackers relative simplicity). However, I knew it's faults (and there were some hum dingers in there) and developers dispised it for the most part because it forced them to work in a threaded way, regardless of whether or not the application needed it.

[the_leander]

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29035&forum=28 is a speculation thread about AnubisOS.  I was skeptical about it at first but I'm beginning to think it has potential.

It's an interesting idea, I am however somewhat skeptical. And that skeptisism comes from what I observed in the BeOS community upon the birth of the opensource replacement race. There were several, but one sticks in my mind specifically was (iirc) Blue Eyed OS (might have been cosmoe), which was to take the OpenBeOS (now haiku) sourcecode and marry it up with a linux kernel to substantially improve hardware compatability. The end result was that the developers after busting their humps for months decided that simply using a linux distro would be easier. My fear is that having to port X11 and all of it's support libs might produce a similar outcome.

That said I do genuinely wish them the best of luck.