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Andrew McPherson  
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 More options Mar 20 2007, 1:48 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: "Andrew McPherson" <kiwip...@gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2007 22:48:17 -0700
Local: Tues, Mar 20 2007 1:48 am
Subject: Re: Any plans for a Mozilla-based OS?
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On Mar 18, 8:02 am, Alex Faaborg <afaab...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> I agree with Mike that we shouldn't get into dealing with drivers, filesystems, etc.  But what if we took a linux distro like Knoppix that loads from a bootable CD (or Live CD), and modified it so that the only UI the user got after booting was Firefox.  We would probably want to implement online profiles since there wouldn't be any storage, but it would be a cool way to quickly convert an old computer loaded with viruses and spyware into a secure and streamlined Web browsing machine.  Maybe a labs project?

> cheers,
> -Alex

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Beltzner" <beltz...@mozilla.com>
> To: "emery denuccio" <emery.denuc...@gmail.com>, "dev.planning" <dev-plann...@lists.mozilla.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:24:21 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
> Subject: Re: Any plans for a Mozilla-based OS?

> I don't see the advantage of being an OS as you describe it. Let the OSes deal with the pain of device drivers, memory allocation, filesystems, network interface layers and I/O. Let us work on improving the cross-platform layer that helps users get to their applications, online data, and friends, pushing the web forward.

> cheers,
> mike

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Why not use a java web operating system, then port over what we really
need for boot from netbsd, so it'll run on anything?
Good idea, have been working on it for 5 years now.

 
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