Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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What make sense with this is that harddrives begin to be very larges.
1 terabyte disk costs nearly 1000$ now. We could expect that on the standard desktop for mid 2006 or so. Will be hard to keep track of all the files stored on a terabyte disk.
That's why Microsoft try to anticipate with WinFS. And we, *nix users, can say we will face the same problems for our desktop usability.
Btw, MySQL is a good database for servers, but need administration, and isn't licence compatible with every free solutions. I think sqlite (wich is pure public domain) is a better solution: no server, no administration, and absolutely compatible licence with BSD, GPL, LGPL, MIT and so. This is why I think it's a better candidate for freedesktop.org adoption.
SQLite is also very very fast. The only drawback is that it lacks a tcp/ip server technologie. But on desktop, it's rather an avantage since this reduce the risks of components failure.