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Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y There's no right way to do it, only ideas that are better than others in certain situations. But if you had the opportunity to head up the design of a new OS, one to Put Things Right, one that could be radical enough to varnish out those UI/X bumps that have clung on for years, but practical enough to be used every day, what would you design? How would you handle application management? What about file types and compatibility? Where would you cherry pick the best bits from other OSes and where would you throw away tradition? I've tackled this challenge for myself and present (an unfinished idea): KrocOS (warning: HTML5 site, will display without CSS in IE/older browsers). OSnews Asks: What would make your perfect OS?
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MysterMask
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2005-07-12

The people who want Free software for the sake of Free software [..] cannot simply be ignored


Sure they can. Common desktop users ignore Linux and their religious behaviour all the time (and vice versa, since fundamentalistic Linux developers ignore common desktop users needs all the time, too) ..

It is they (and I) [..]


How do you know? Somehow, the proof that Betrand Russel and the pope are one comes to my mind when reading such baseless statements ..


[..] who object to a stable ABI on idealistic grounds [..]


Now this if funny. I thought Linux is about free software and not about an instable ABI. So having an unstable ABI is what makes Linux free?
Maybe you should go to an ashram and invest some time to think about a world that does not match (and never will) your idealistic view ..

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