Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hello, all you BSD hackers!This sounds like the filesystem from BeOS.
A major change to the "file-folder-desktop" metaphor is long overdue, and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large and growing "child" -- is the perfect place to start the revolution... ;-)
If anyone has seen Scopeware (<http://www.scopeware.com>), you'll know the kind of thing I'm thinking of: a universal indexing system where *any* file of *any* type in *any* location would be cross-referenced (using metadata as well as content where possible) in one or more "filters" or "streams".
Is anybody working on such a fundamental change? If not, is there any interest in starting such a project? I'm not the world's most experienced programmer (mostly Java, some XML/XSLT, a little RealBASIC, etc.), but I'm a good project manager and technical writer, if that would help.
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Best regards,
Kieren MacMillan.
You might want to check out OpenBeOS. (http://www.openbeos.org/)
Last time I checked, their attempt to rewrite the original BeOS code under a free license had made some progress, especially the filesystem part.
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