Linked by J. Scott Edwards on Fri 17th Dec 2004 18:51 UTC
Every hard-core OS aficionado has done it: Laid out a grand scheme for creating the perfect OS. Taking all the best features and attributes from the OSes we love, and making sure to assiduously avoid the pitfalls of the OSes we don't. Maybe our goals were modest, and we just wanted a slightly tweaked version of an existing OS. But sometimes we're feeling ambitious, and we have large, creative ideas for revolutionizing computing. Long-time OSNews reader and contributor J. Scott Edwards just couldn't help himself, and he has set about to not only plan, but to try to build his dream OS.
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i dont think writing an os from groundup would be a feasible idea. Why not implement it on top of another existing open source operating system. As someone has already commented that some of the ideas you have presented are being implemented slowly by existing operating systems.
Many of the ideas you have mentioned are already being worked on. Why not work on top of an existing opensource operating system? A new linux distribution would definitely be a good idea. You can look around for linux projects which are in 'some way similar' to what you have mentioned in your article, and then throw them together into your distribution. This will allow you to save millions of hours of work and your ideas will be implemented much more quickly, though maybe not in their full. But it is about evolution, not revolution,as it has been mentioned already.
I am sure as time goes on and technology improves you will discover that what you want, could have been implemented in some other way and not as you are presently thinking. You will discover new possibilites and better ways to make things work. This is what the existing operating systems are trying to do....'evolve' into something better.
But if you want to start from ground up,which i do not recommend, then i think all i can do is wish you luck and a very long life.