[elysium-developers] Elysium Vision?

[Nick J. <ni...@na...>]

Hello,

	I have been reading all the posts to the list, though alot of it is
over my head at the current moment, I have a copy of the kernel checked out
and have been updating it and trying to follow what i being talked about,
while viewing the code referenced in some of the discussions etc. 

	I have read the little information there is on the webpage at
elysium.sourceforge.net and have somequestions, forgive me if they may be
worded the wrong way, or asked from an inexperience point of view. I am,
very inexperienced.

1. I get the idea that the kernel is supposed to be "minimalistic" leaving
   it up to the applications to speak directly to the hardware in order to 
   gain performance increases. 

	First of all, Is this true? Maybe someone could explain it in better 
   words than I just did?

	If this is true, then wouldn't this make developing applications.

	1.1. much more difficult, i.e. requiring software developers to deal
             with handling direct video access and any other piece of hardware 
             it required the use of. instead of developing system level tools
             to handle the hardware, and abstract it for the application 
             developer, sort of the same concept as windowing toolkits like
	     GTK etc.

	1.2. much more dangerous, increasing the probability of misusing
             hardware, either on purpose, or in error.

2. What type of environment will the core OS be? 

   Is it going to be a GUI OS, such as BeOS (if you haven't heard of or 
   checked out BeOS yet, you really should, it's not open source, but 
   they've got a seemingly really next generation OS.

   Or will it be more like that of the UNIX's. with a text based core OS,
   and perhaps a seperate layer for graphics?

Or maybe something completely different?


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