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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by nixpulvis on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:54PM (#18443034)
I feel like a new fresh look at what UNIX is today could be valuable. I wouldn't want to give up a lot of the philosophy around it. Redox does in fact do this in a number of places, for example I think the expansion on "everything is a file" [1] is a pretty awesome idea.

[1]: https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/url_scheme_resource/eve...

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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by sam0x17 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:00PM (#18443732)
I'd love to see a "there are no paths, file system is a db" like it was originally rumored Vista was going to be. I'd also love to see more opinionated OS integration e.g. per-application volume sliders, better file system search indexing, real-time built-in file and directory watching API that can be blocking or non-blocking, standardized storage of program files instead of installed app locations being ambiguous, standardized system and app settings via a neat API, etc., etc., an easy and sane git-based package manager, etc
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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by GordonS on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:14PM (#18443891)
Windows 10 does per-application volume control.

Chrome OS has a fixed app install location, as does Windows 10 in 'S' mode (since you can only install store apps).

I remember being intrigued by the database-as-filesystem idea when it was first touted - has any OS actually implemented this? I'd be interested to see how it works in practice.

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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by TickleSteve on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:42PM (#18444177)
"pick"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

Everything old is new again... this was from the mid-60s and was relatively popular for its time.

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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by gvx on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:32PM (#18444625)
Very interesting. The one thing that stood out to me was this, though:

> It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.

What an unfortunate name.

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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by gregw2 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:42PM (#18447015)
OS/400 did this, very cool tech that was never "cool"
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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by pjmlp on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:45AM (#18448469)
Given the way Android and UWP apps work, I always have a warm fuzzy feeeling of carrying a subset of OS/400 design ideas with me.
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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by adamnemecek on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:35PM (#18444102)
These are all very good ideas I’ve also thought about.

WinFS was ahead of its time. Also re file watching, I think I want a reactive api for a lot ornate operations.

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