[elysium-developers] Re: elysium-developers digest, Vol 1 #8 - 6 msgs

[Rogelio M. S. Jr. <ro...@ev...>]

> 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?

It IS something different. Whether it will be a GUI or not is simply not in the
kernel. It depends on how you design the libos running on top of the exokernel.
The exokernel only provides protection. All other traditional OS functionality is
implemented outside the kernel. That means graphics, ipc virtual memory, etc.

You can make it any way you like. The libos is very much accessible to the
programmer and he can customize it anyway he likes. Any bad code is guaranteed
not to corrupt any other. Malicious code only shoots itself so to speak.