From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 12:50:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C5537B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:50:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D776443F43 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:50:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0CKoQP8017396; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:50:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3E21D4C6.9020108@401.cx> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:49:10 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kieren MacMillan Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone working on a new file system metaphor? References: <0747734E-24B5-11D7-9116-00306572DA52@coresolutions.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kieren MacMillan wrote: > 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 (), 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. This sounds like the filesystem from BeOS. You might want to check out OpenBeOS. (http://www.openbeos.org/) Last time I checked, their attempt to rewrite the original BeOS code under a free license had made some progress, especially the filesystem part. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message