thoughts

kevin riley
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:35:30 -0000

I am a computer engineering student at Marquette University.  I have a lot
of ideas for Operating systems and applications, but due to my limited
knowledge, they are lying dorment in my head.  If there is someone that I
can bounce some ideas off so that they can actually accomplish it, this
would be great.

This may sound weird, someone with good ideas but limited know-how.  The
reason is I am a quick learner and listen to a lot of people.  Some ideas
come to me and as I discuss them with people, I make them more viable.  The
problem is, having never done anything like it, I wouldn't know where to
start.

I have both hardware ideas and software ideas.  I don't know if anyone on
the samba team would deal with hardware, but I'm just throwing that out.

One of my favorite ideas was an Os that managed Os's.  This might be in
production because it is a great idea and it just seems like it's going to
happen soon.  Some issues would be with virtual machines and os handling.
The end product would have Os's viewable as if the were applications.  You
could switch from one to another as easily as you would with any normal
applications.  There would have to be one work horse Os that is the base for
all the other Os's.  It would also have to implement virtual machine
thinking in order to deal with I/O.  The base Os could have a settings
kernel wich would save all the files that are desired to be shared.  I have
some other thoughts on this and I don't wish to make this one of those huge
emails people dread reading.

The reason I think this is so important is because space is offensively
cheap and more and more people are tring to dual and multi boot (including
myself).  The process now is still barbaric.  Being able to accomplish this
would open up new doors to Os, I think.  You could take the best of
different Os's and make them into one.  Also, the advancements in virtual
machines that are necessary would be wonderful.

If anyone is interested, I would love to here professionals' thoughts on
this.  If not, thank you for your time and happy coding.

Kevin

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