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Rasmus Wikman rasmus.wikman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 18:53:56 EDT 2011


Thanks!

(Well, it doesn't have to be "COMPLETELY", but it doesn't hurt; The  
more freedom, the less bureocracy, the faster deployment. With a  
background in business I just know that there are too many hurdles to  
overcome anyway to get things going.)



On 13 sep 2011, at 00.56, cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com wrote:

> If you wanted it to be COMPLETELY "floss", why not use LinuxLibre?
> http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
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> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:27:18 +0300, Rasmus Wikman wrote:
>> Hello to you!
>>
>> I found your project(s) when I was reading up on OpenCores/OpenRISC.
>>
>> Long -> Short; I'm bashing my head against the wall and is going to
>> try and create a new browser based OS since that's where the Internet
>> seems to be heading. But it needs to be completely FLOSS. You know
>> why.
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>>
>> JavaScript is all the rage I because it makes it possible for one man
>> teams to create fantastic applications instead of a team of 5+ so I
>> gather that it will be coded mainly in JS.
>>
>> Here's a low down of how it could be done with the soft technology
>> available today. (Nevermind the wording of * level I/O, they're just
>> words and I'm a designer not a coder, 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 do you think?
>>
>> Rasmus
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>> * 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
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