[Mentalunix-developers] Proposed feature set...

[Alan G. <ala...@st...>]

To quickly determine wheather hanging on this list will be of any use to
me I will now present a list of features that I insist on implementing
in this "distribution". Otherwise I will unsubscribe. I must insist on
these features because without them, this distribution will be as
useless to me as all the others and not even worth my time much less my
effort.

Categories: 
P - performance
U - usability
M - Maintainability
L - Learnability
S - Security 
R - Reliability

Demanded features: 

P - No binary distributions! Argument: When I installed Mandrake 6.5 my
Athalon had a BogoMips rating of 799. When I recompiled the kernel it
jumped to 1,500. =) Therefore all software should be compiled by and for
the host processor. 

U/L - Eliminate the use of "Hackish" and use good dictionary ENGLISH in
as many contexts as possible. Argument: One of the hardest things to
learn in UNIX is the massive numbers of acronyms and abreviations. Even
in DOS I have written a batch program called "memory" because that is
the word that I *think* when I want to learn about the memory situation
of my computer. While you may argue that "mem" is easier to type, it is
harder to THINK because I must translate what I think, which is always
MEMORY, to mem. Its an extra step that *should* be avoided.

U/M - Seperate progarms out and make things as easy to configure as DOS
software. For example instead of putting parts of programs all over the
system in such a way that no human can maintain all of them. (as there
are no clues as to what belongs to what nor indication of even what
resources a given program might actually be using...) Therefore I demand
that irrespective of how storage is allocated to jobs, all of say
"Apache" reside in one single directory, say
/programs/netservers/apache/ . Which would *everything* that is
exclusively a part of the Apache webserver.

S - I have no understanding of "runlevels" therefore they, and other
unused features like them, should be eliminated. Instead the system will
be organized in such a way that it is easy to start and stop desired or
undesired functions at will and with the greatest possible ease.

R - Better console managment. The console should be treated as any other
device in the system and should be protected from any possibility of
dissruption by any program. The "reset" command should be unneccessary. 

I hope others on this list will add to these requirements. I want to
finally see a GOOD operating system for a change. I HATE ALL THESE
SHITTY OSES!!! =(


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