jOS - Beating ye olde horse
Rasmus Wikman
I wrote about a JavaScript based OS a month ago and I just can't get
enough. I gave it some more thought and would like your opinions.
I know it's a bit off topic, but since I'm more of a designer than a
coder I would like to hear your opinions on the feasibility of the
project at hand. (Nevermind the wording of * level I/O, they're just
words, hope you understand what I mean!)
Cappuccino[1] could serve as an application framework.
Chromium[2] could serve as a window handler*.
Node[3] could serve as high level I/O**.
Linux[4] could serve as low level I/O.
OpenRISC[5] could serve as byte level I/O.
Raison d'etre;
- Unified global method to identify data***
Goals;
- Same OS on both client and server/cloud (all clients = servers)
- Accessible from all PCs (also not running jOS)
- Autoupdate magic of the whole shebang
- Binary data stored in public cloud to allow for GSM-connections
- (WiFi) Mesh of computers where data is stored in P2P style
- Completely open source computer for around 25 USD[6]
- Hackable[7] all the way up and down to make codelectronics cool for
school
- And of course: "USA for Africa"-mentality (code === art)
There are indeed a lot of details to be ironed out, but it doesn't
seem too impossible to get it done by 2020[8].
What sayeth the jury?
Rasmus
* By changing the methodology of browser tabs to a dock/taskbar.
** By making installations aware of each other through DNS-like
propagation.
*** SHOULD solve all of mankinds problems by letting developers focus
on getting paid by making apps instead of giving away cash to
middlehand Mr. FaceGooApple - Fair trade in virtual space
[1] http://cappuccino.org
[2] http://www.chromium.org
[3] http://nodejs.org
[4] http://www.kernel.org
[5] http://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page
[6] http://www.raspberrypi.org
[7] http://www.arduino.cc
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020
Mark Hahn
Rasmus Wikman
Eureka!
You, my friend, are a genius; A JavaScript VM implemented directly on
VHDL[1] and a board with HDMI, 2xUSB and with digital I/O pins (like
the Arduino) should do the trick. And thus, Linux.js was born.
(Competition requires common rules; Microsoft doesn't adher to the
rules of FLOSS so basically there's no competition per se. It's just a
bloated corporation with a club beating everything that looks
dangerous. Übernerds are too afraid to fight in the Open, that's why
the world looks like this[2] and not like this[3].)
Thank you!
Rasmus
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
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