OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20057/OSX-Like_Operating_System_Without_the_Apple Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:16:16 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com so osx = eye candy = gos http://www.osnews.com/thread?323002 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323002 he's obviously never used osx if he thinks adding a dock which can open folders in a fan-view to a linux-distribution makes it an osx-like operating system. that's just superflous eye candy. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (puenktchen) Comments RE: so osx = eye candy = gos http://www.osnews.com/thread?323003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323003 Agreed. An "OSX-like" open source OS should be based on GNUStep, for starters. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csixty4) Comments Social Networking http://www.osnews.com/thread?323006 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323006 ... FTW!

gah, I can't wait till myspace dies. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments RE: Social Networking http://www.osnews.com/thread?323007 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323007 Although I'm tempted to say Linux for the vacuous can't see that catching on. I think its a good thing to play with the appearance add a doc and try to make a cool Linux for the web generation.

With maybe a passing resemblance to OSX. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gone fishing) Comments Comment by namespace http://www.osnews.com/thread?323008 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323008 Ubuntu + Avant Window Navigator = Mac OS X ?

NO!

Some people just don't get the idea. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (namespace) Comments RE[2]: so osx = eye candy = gos http://www.osnews.com/thread?323011 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323011 Except, OpenStep is like visiting 1990 again. I just tried the OpenStep live CD this morning and it was painful.

Downloading this now, but I imagine it's not going to magically have great apps to go along with it. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chrish) Comments RE: Social Networking http://www.osnews.com/thread?323022 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323022
gah, I can't wait till myspace dies.


Me neither. What a horrible site. Facebook was nice and clean but it is starting to get cluttered with "apps".

Either way, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of having to upload pictures on flickr, myspace, and facebook so that all of my friends can see them. Facebook is really nice since it lets others tag your photos which can be tedious.

Either way...someone needs to abstract all of this crap and make the sites obsolete. I should be able to post a picture to one site and have it create the appropriate albums on whatever social sites I use. I should be able to reply to people's "walls" or people's messages through a single abstraction and not care whether it is on myspace, or facebook, or whatever. I'm just getting tired of it all. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments Comment by evangs http://www.osnews.com/thread?323023 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323023 But I thought we weren't supposed to compare Linux to OS X and Windows? Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evangs) Comments RE[2]: Social Networking http://www.osnews.com/thread?323025 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323025 yeah, that would be nice.

I use flickr but lately I've started using picasa. Facebook was OK as far as "social networking" sites go. I just can never see the point in them. The only one that seems of any value to me is LinkedIn.

I work at a public library and it amazes me how people come in and spend their entire allotted two hours on MySpace doing... nothing. Day in and day out.

*shakes head* Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments RE[3]: so osx = eye candy = gos http://www.osnews.com/thread?323026 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323026 A lot of people like minimalistic interfaces with pretty much no eye-candy. "Functional" is nice ;)

granted, GS doesn't have the greatest of apps... Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments Comment by Ultimatebadass http://www.osnews.com/thread?323028 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323028 "gOS Space focuses on the core activities of the MySpace generation"

Sounds scary ;) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ultimatebadass) Comments RE[3]: so osx = eye candy = gos http://www.osnews.com/thread?323031 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323031 You're making the same assumption as the original article writer: that being like OSX is purely a visual quality.

At its heart, OSX *is* NextStep, just with a prettier GUI. In fact, the core objects in the Cocoa API are still named NS*. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csixty4) Comments some screen shots http://www.osnews.com/thread?323032 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323032 http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p... Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments RE[3]: Social Networking http://www.osnews.com/thread?323048 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323048 There are people working on that. Or atleast making it easier to manage _your_ information.
http://www.dataportability.org/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments RE: Comment by Ultimatebadass http://www.osnews.com/thread?323063 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323063 so it facilitates stalking, wasting time and annoying invites to stupid "apps"? That isn't scary, just plain retarded. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments RE: Comment by Ultimatebadass http://www.osnews.com/thread?323064 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323064 So it facilitates stalking, wasting time and annoying invites to stupid "apps"? Excellent, I'm going to go throw up now. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments " OSX-Like Operating System Without the Apple " http://www.osnews.com/thread?323072 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323072 FreeBSD?Edited 2008-07-15 21:38 UTC Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fordiputz) Comments RE: " OSX-Like Operating System Without the Apple " http://www.osnews.com/thread?323094 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323094 I agree,

I thought they were talkin' about Darwin ;) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE[2]: Social Networking http://www.osnews.com/thread?323364 http://www.osnews.com/thread?323364 I think Dropbox(getdropbox.com) is great for pictures.

It integrates with your os(XP/Vista, OSX and soon: Linux.) You just put a folder with images into a special Photo folder in your dropbox-folder and automaticly generrates a photo gallery.

The link is not public(you have to give it to people), and there is no commentsor tagging like in Facebook, still worth checking out though. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments