Star OSNews Asks: Which Features Are Missing from Your OS?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:38 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes It's time for another "OSNews asks" item. This time, I want to focus on something that I've been wanting to talk about with you all before, but never found the time for. The question is simple: which feature(s) from other operating systems would you like to see in your own main operating system?
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OK, here is my list
by kragil on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:48 UTC
kragil
Member since:
2006-01-04

I am using Debian Squeeze KDE4 and I would like to have:

1. The graphics subsystem from Windows Version 6.1 (as FOSS for all chips)
2. Unified drag and drop software installs for desktop apps (kinda like OSX, but + central update feature)
3. Dtrace/ZFS from Solaris
4. Shutdown times from AmigaOS
5. Universal app store/market from Android/iPhoneOS
7. HAMMER from Dragonfly
8. Realtime from RHEL


Gladly most of this stuff is in the pipeline (or very similar things)

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RE: OK, here is my list
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Thu 16th Jul 2009 00:00 in reply to "OK, here is my list"
Bill Shooter of Bul Member since:
2006-07-14

Hammer has always intrigued me. I'd love to see it get more use so that I might trust it a bit more.

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RE: OK, here is my list
by judgen on Thu 16th Jul 2009 00:45 in reply to "OK, here is my list"
judgen Member since:
2006-07-12

I love the amiga (classic)and c64 boot times too as well as shutdown.

In short what i am addicted to in BeOS is the exact same things Thom mentioned, (send to back and d-click to minimize) but something i also is missing from most window decors is the tabs of BeOS so that you can teach the desktop no matter how many windows you have maximized. This would be pointless if the desktop has as little usage as in windows. (storing icons and providing the screen preferences panel) In BeOS the desktop was used through a zsnake to browser the entire filesystem if you liked. File managers in all glory, but ill take the snake for quick operations any day. Something else i miss in most OS'es is Forced theming, so that a toolkit could be forced to use the system style of the users choise. ie: I hate the windows live messenger as it does not fit in with XP style and uses way too much screen estate... but some people like it i guess, but im still using the old messenger 4.* when on windows as its still there and works fine for my needs. Oh well... i guess i should call it quits here before my comment gets unreadable.
Cheerio, pip, pip and so on..

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