Re[3]: [Altosdev-kernel] Discussion

[Alexey M. <tkt...@cs...>]

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Thnx. I was using Opera, and it didn't display the whole page (guess
it's a sourceforge bug).

Well, regarding your articles.. I fully agree with the first one, but
I have some doubts with certain statements in the second one.

AM> Let the system communication with user will be only through
AM> GUI. But I supposed that the console applications will be wrote by
AM> someone further for experienced users.
Ok, let it be. Yeah, we'll have to support console apps anyways.. BTW,
are we going to support Linux or BSD binaries? That would simplify the
matters enourmously, since we would already have a working compiler
and all the stuff related to it.. I, personally, would stick to Linux
(though I love BSD better).

AM> The alternative OS is the Personal OS. It is mean that there is no
AM> multi-user concept. This OS doesn=92t restrict users in using local
AM> resources.
It wouldn't be really that hard to implement. If you take a look at
other OSes' kernel code the percentage of the multi-user support code
is extremely low. Furthermore, if we use, say, ext2fs, ufs of ntfs
filesystems, we'll already have some facilities for multi-user
support. I guess we could at least leave the possibility to add this
in future if we don't want to implement it straight away.

AM> If it used for several users, they can use secured server for
AM> keeping personal data and connect to it when they need.
Consider several users using the same computer. How are there desktop
settings going to be maintained? Even Windows (not to mention NT)
supports multi-user configurations (not entirely, though, but in some
sense). We have to take into account the fact that several users can
share one computer, so we have to at least implement some basic
multi-user support ('cause it will be a pain to add it in future to an
already working system).

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