Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 From: Kieren MacMillan <kmacmillan@coresolutions.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: anyone working on a new file system metaphor? Message-ID: <0747734E-24B5-11D7-9116-00306572DA52@coresolutions.ca>
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Hello, all you BSD hackers! A major change to the "file-folder-desktop" metaphor is long overdue, and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large and growing "child" -- is the perfect place to start the revolution... ;-) If anyone has seen Scopeware (<http://www.scopeware.com>), you'll know the kind of thing I'm thinking of: a universal indexing system where *any* file of *any* type in *any* location would be cross-referenced (using metadata as well as content where possible) in one or more "filters" or "streams". Is anybody working on such a fundamental change? If not, is there any interest in starting such a project? I'm not the world's most experienced programmer (mostly Java, some XML/XSLT, a little RealBASIC, etc.), but I'm a good project manager and technical writer, if that would help. [n.b. Please cc my email address in any responses, as I'm not currently subscribed to the full mailing list.] Best regards, Kieren MacMillan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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