balloooza
July 19th, 2009, 12:28 AM
This is more than my lifes dream, it is a forum.
Just so start, I am still yong, and I am interested in open source software, not neccecarily linux, everything open source, why because of this:
Somone who has this merical idea to make a device that can make a peice of bread become crispy (a toaster) will make his device, and patent it, then sell it, the user can disassembal the device and look inside, he just can't sell the idea, untuil the patent wears out (like a toaster, there is nothing preventing a company from making a toaster now)
Propritory software has a strange approach: the code that was used to make the software is not available to the user (contrary to the toaster) and the user is locked now, because they do not know how it was made, and when there is no more patent, there is no requirement for microsoft to release the code as open source, so the project is dead, and the user has to get a new version. the maker of the software can cripple the version, and make you buy upgrades, as opposed to the toaster where the breakfast guru could add on his own extention.
This is where I want to go with the whole free software thing:
Linux is not for the average joe, why?
three things
1. Nothing is super awsome (IMHO, absolutly no operating system has somthing like this)
2. Linux is called linux, I have seen people sit down at my computer (with my permission) and find there way to firefox, and even make a document, and never said HEY, THIS IS NOT WINDOWS!!!! I WILL NOT USE IT, but months ago, at best buy, a perspective netbook buyer and sales agent said, so dose this one have vista or XP, sales clerck: no this has linux, it is a little different, but you can still get to firefox to browse the web, but honestly, that is all you will do with this little thing, coustomer, how do I get one of these with XP, because that is what I use at work... The objection to somthing you do not know, this is rational, and reasonable, if you allways used a type of text editor, like vim, and went to a store, chances are you would say, can I get this emacs machine with vim?
3. three leters LIB once somone is on linux, that is going to be the first problem, I have a solution, that is my first concept in this "OS" that will come tommarrow,
first THE CONCEPT:
Reinvent linux, this is where I distinct linux from (drumroll....) gazelle (cool animal, fast, not a version of osx yet)
Gazelle components:
Backend: linux type, with not gnu tools, but zingou (gaZelle Is Not Gnu Or Unix)
UI - contains these things:
-Absollutly new office, called encorperate (later)
-A unique settings system(later)
And the big thing is: application directorys, these directorys have, I will be yelled at for this: every library, and dependency to use that app, all contained inside a "coagulated" directory (this structure means that a user can simply download firefox, then drag the entire "directory" to the apps folder (like a mac) and run it from there)
Why will this help? because people need a way to install propritory and open applications alike, so if everything is in this, it will be easy to install an application.
That is all for today, this is just the fundementals, I will get to the goary details, and use this as a blog, of what I think should be in this system, and you can make all the comments you want, and help me.
And as a last thought, this is not about the buisness modle, it is solutions to commen problems with software, and it is somthing I consider to at least persue one tiny element of this in my life.
MY goal is to have
open source software for everyone, linux for geeks and gazelle for those who want a computer that works simply, with (I hessitate to say) less functionality than full linux.
Just so start, I am still yong, and I am interested in open source software, not neccecarily linux, everything open source, why because of this:
Somone who has this merical idea to make a device that can make a peice of bread become crispy (a toaster) will make his device, and patent it, then sell it, the user can disassembal the device and look inside, he just can't sell the idea, untuil the patent wears out (like a toaster, there is nothing preventing a company from making a toaster now)
Propritory software has a strange approach: the code that was used to make the software is not available to the user (contrary to the toaster) and the user is locked now, because they do not know how it was made, and when there is no more patent, there is no requirement for microsoft to release the code as open source, so the project is dead, and the user has to get a new version. the maker of the software can cripple the version, and make you buy upgrades, as opposed to the toaster where the breakfast guru could add on his own extention.
This is where I want to go with the whole free software thing:
Linux is not for the average joe, why?
three things
1. Nothing is super awsome (IMHO, absolutly no operating system has somthing like this)
2. Linux is called linux, I have seen people sit down at my computer (with my permission) and find there way to firefox, and even make a document, and never said HEY, THIS IS NOT WINDOWS!!!! I WILL NOT USE IT, but months ago, at best buy, a perspective netbook buyer and sales agent said, so dose this one have vista or XP, sales clerck: no this has linux, it is a little different, but you can still get to firefox to browse the web, but honestly, that is all you will do with this little thing, coustomer, how do I get one of these with XP, because that is what I use at work... The objection to somthing you do not know, this is rational, and reasonable, if you allways used a type of text editor, like vim, and went to a store, chances are you would say, can I get this emacs machine with vim?
3. three leters LIB once somone is on linux, that is going to be the first problem, I have a solution, that is my first concept in this "OS" that will come tommarrow,
first THE CONCEPT:
Reinvent linux, this is where I distinct linux from (drumroll....) gazelle (cool animal, fast, not a version of osx yet)
Gazelle components:
Backend: linux type, with not gnu tools, but zingou (gaZelle Is Not Gnu Or Unix)
UI - contains these things:
-Absollutly new office, called encorperate (later)
-A unique settings system(later)
And the big thing is: application directorys, these directorys have, I will be yelled at for this: every library, and dependency to use that app, all contained inside a "coagulated" directory (this structure means that a user can simply download firefox, then drag the entire "directory" to the apps folder (like a mac) and run it from there)
Why will this help? because people need a way to install propritory and open applications alike, so if everything is in this, it will be easy to install an application.
That is all for today, this is just the fundementals, I will get to the goary details, and use this as a blog, of what I think should be in this system, and you can make all the comments you want, and help me.
And as a last thought, this is not about the buisness modle, it is solutions to commen problems with software, and it is somthing I consider to at least persue one tiny element of this in my life.
MY goal is to have
open source software for everyone, linux for geeks and gazelle for those who want a computer that works simply, with (I hessitate to say) less functionality than full linux.