Minerva's primary goal is security. To allow all users to feel safe and secure but have the freedom to do what ever they want. We also want a fast easy way to bring every linux and windows o/s together.
ncurOS is a very secure OS, which is based on an UNIX (maybe linux) kernel. Many system tools are integrated in the kernel. All of these tools are written with ncurses. All ncurOS-developers follow a coding standard.