Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:05:13 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd as the basis for something better? Message-ID: <7C24F382-C0CA-4AD6-AAB5-F52DB0D8EFAD@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05062710017d7791a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200506270945.j5R9jkoR032624@mailserver3.hushmail.com> <ef10de9a05062710017d7791a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > To bring UNIX to the masses one of the first things we need to do is > make installing and running apps easy. Right now we are in what once > was called "DLL Hell" in windows 3.x, is this the best we can do? Hard > drive space is a non issue today so what is wrong with making fat > binaries that that have all the dependencies compiled into one file. > Another apple idea is making the binaries platform independent so it > will run on an i386, ppc, sparc, etc. This is the biggest problem I > have with UNIX. > > Step 1: Download the app from developer foo's website. > Step 2: Double click on the app. > Step 3: The app launches and the dam thing just works. > > What is so hard about this guys? > > Anyways... here's a cool video from back in the day, 1991 (DOS 5.0 and > windows 3.0 in microsoft's timeline), with steve jobs demoing > NeXTSTEP. Microsoft's windows still can't do some of the stuff they > where doing back in 91. It a quicktime video btw: > http://www.openstep.se/jobs/ Is there any wonder that the people who have already brought "Unix" to the masses is Steve Jobs and the historical descendent to OpenStep (NEXTStep) -- Mac OS X? Most of what is described above exists in OS X already. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net
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