I don’t think making a complete new OS for the Ben would make a whole lot of sense. Reinventing the wheel is a good idea only if you are absolutely, positively sure your new wheel will be at least ten times better than the current state–of–the–art wheel.
Linux is not a perfect, but it works pretty damn well; moreover, it is
developed by hundreds of really smart guys and supported by large
companies that use it as a base for their main products, which ensures
it will become better and better as time goes by.
If you really want to create something Ben–specific, my advice would
be: don’t. Instead, use your time to improve the upstream situation
of the Ben, to take mainteniance burden off Qi as much as possible.
Either that, or concentrate on the areas where the Ben is more lacking.
My personal pet peeves, as the readers of this list might have guessed,
are integration and polish: I would take a consistent, predictable user
interface over abundance of software any day. Sadly the Ben is not quite
there yet, although things have been improving a lot since its inception.
Just my 0.2 ${CURRENCY}.
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Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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