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07-06-2006, 08:21 AM #1Away
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A firefox os?
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07-06-2006, 08:32 AM #2Disabled
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Really now, is this necessary? Firefox is a browser. Do we want the people who can't create a memory-lite browser developing a kernel?
They could probably make their own linux distribution, running the same old linux kernel, or possibly something based off freebsd, but come on now... Last year we were all sitting pretty for googleOS, and that was never released to the public. Can we just stick to windows, One of the ten thousand linux distributions, or free/open/net/dragonfire/ObsecureFifthVersionBSD ?
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07-06-2006, 08:42 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by ub3r
They could probably make their own linux distribution, running the same old linux kernel, or possibly something based off freebsd, but come on now... Last year we were all sitting pretty for googleOS, and that was never released to the public. Can we just stick to windows, One of the ten thousand linux distributions, or free/open/net/dragonfire/ObsecureFifthVersionBSD ?
no new distro (even the current favourite ubuntu) has done anything *that* different in a long time
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07-06-2006, 08:45 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Firefox is a browser, at this point it most likely woulden't go very well if they tried to style an OS around the setup of a browser.
They should put more work into Firefox or create other Firefox / Thunderbird style applications before even considering an OS.
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07-06-2006, 08:58 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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agreed - they also dont have the name (like google does) to be able to come up with a new application in a totally different genre to their current software, and have it become instantly popular regardless of what it does or how good it is (and most alpha/beta/first version softwares need a lot of work)
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07-06-2006, 09:12 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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If this really comes true, I am ready to buy a HDD to install this...
tanfwc
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07-06-2006, 09:14 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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I agree with Tee and Mike- there is no need for this and it is most likely a waste of time (in my opinion)
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07-06-2006, 10:46 AM #8Web Hosting Master Disaster
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Linux, bsd, etc wrapped in another name.... perfect.
Then again, maybe they will acutally do something great. Heck, OS X is what part of darwin(bsd?), linux and other things.... os x is very nice.
Just think if you were to get all the other OS people out there and push behind one OS (instead of taking it and building off it, they would work together). Just think about what could be done.... it could be amazing.Last edited by hekwu; 07-06-2006 at 10:50 AM.
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07-06-2006, 12:06 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Here's an OS you can access with Firefox:
www.youos.com
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07-06-2006, 01:49 PM #10Newbie
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Firefox is pretty cool as a browser, I don't know about an OS though
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07-06-2006, 02:06 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Sounds a bit unnecessary to me
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07-06-2006, 02:14 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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If I was part of the team, I'll concentrate on improving the browser, maybe fix its high memory usage problem..
Peace,Testing 1.. Testing 1..2.. Testing 1..2..3...
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07-06-2006, 04:13 PM #13Aspiring Evangelist
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If I was part of the team, I'll concentrate on improving the browser, maybe fix its high memory usage problem..
If they fixed that problem in a new version, I *might* consider switching back...He arose!
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07-06-2006, 10:36 PM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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Like everyone else... its not needed... if it had been 10 years ago, then they might have had a chance... now... I highly doubt that they'll make anything off of it if they do make it. They can't charge money for it, or people will just stick to the microsoft that comes preloaded or linux... and honestly... its going to be buggy for the first few months at minimum.
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07-06-2006, 11:39 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Wait, writing a successful browser is one thing, writing a successful OS is an entirely different thing. Don't even see the connection.
Besides, many people are just lulled into believing the fact that FF is a great browser, cause everyone knows Opera is just better.
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07-07-2006, 02:04 AM #16Web Developer
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The only point in it would be for an internet-only PC. But in that case, there's no advantage over installing an OS and then putting FF on it, and if you wanted an embedded system, Opera would be a much better choice.