> My apologies. I was just making an assumption about casing though, as > the intended pronunciation is a bit obvious. ;-)
No offense taken, I just wanted to clarify it before it spread. :) > Actually mostly J has been on the website etc. The core features you I also remembered he did our current logo, some work around the build process, and some keyboard mappings. > I honestly believed that some form of C# OS or another will be the next > revolution in OS design and implementation. Powerful OOP abstractions, > and verifiable bytecode, allow a whole world of possibilities in 80% or more of your description describes what Next was designed to be. Again - we are not unique in these regards. I have definite unique ideas later for Cosmos - to me the managed part is a means to an end, not the end itself. > software's requirements. And Microsoft, with .NET, has created the best > set of tools to facilitate it. And Mono eliminates licensing > restrictions that would otherwise make it infeasible. But its all a > matter of opinion, interest, and management decisions, in the end. Actually VS2008 now allows cross platform dev in it. I asked MS about what we do with FCL - and no one could find a restriction on what we are doing. That being said - we use FCL for now but if anyone finds a restriction in the current .NET, we can very easily move to Mono. Nothing in Cosmos is MSNET specific, and likely we will move to Mono in the future or make it hot swappable for either. For now we stay with MSNET more out of convenience and focus than out of desire. > And that is specifically what I hate about *nux and cousins - wondering > what will work where. Its going to take some major hocus pocus to > overcome that if SharpOS and Cosmos differ by too much. Yes, that part of Linux sucks. Lets stick more to my analogy of Linux and FreeBSD then - at least there is a bit of real differentiation rather than a billion distros "just because" > And I certainly hope so! And regardless, in the end, end-user apps that > will be developed (C# web browser, anyone?), should work both places. Yes. That fits inline with my comment around applications. I think thats the best place for possibilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers
