Cosmoe is back. "Well, I couldn't stay away. My lengthy hiatus away from working on Cosmoe is now over, and I am back in full force! For those of you not familiar with Cosmoe, it is a BeOS API (or Haiku API, if you will) environment running on Linux." There's even a screenshot.
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Member since:2005-07-06
And? The vast majority of MacOS X users never use the terminal, so they *don't* have to learn Unix!
So I'm not sure what's your point here: if a BeOS clone on top of Linux kernel was done in a similar fashion, the vast majority of the users would never know what the kernel is and that's fine.
Sure if they want to go and see under the hood, they would find the Linux kernel, but so what? As long as the BeOS clone works well enough that you don't *have to* learn Linux unless you want, I fail to see how that is the problem.
Member since:2006-03-27
Yes, but OS X has some hundreds programmers. With this, you can put any kernel behind any face. That's something we've seen in past for Apple, you can put a kernel worse than Win95 and people would still say that it rocks as long as it has Aqua.
But we want to keep the OS simple, and we have to because we don't have hundreds of programmers.
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2006-03-27
"MacOS X has shown quite clearly that you can reuse a kernel and make a different OS: Mach+FreeBSD personality, does Mac OS X feels like FreeBSD?"
No, until you exit the Aqua and venture into the terminal. This is when you see that Aqua is not "integrated" with the system below, but it is "over" it. Finder don't let you go below /Volumes, what if I have to edit files under /private, /usr, /etc... you have to learn Unix.