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New NeXTStep / OSX Based OS

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hm_murdock:
but there are people who use it. I feel it would be better that the functions were there, lest they be disappointed when they can't do all the same things that they did in
windows

worker201:
I'd love to offer my support to this project, but the only thing I can do really well is make maps - and that isn't very useful to you.  Maybe I could beta-test or write some documentation later in the project, or something.

Laukev7:
Uhm, but isn't this going to SERIOUSLY harm Apple if everyone just starts using an OS X clone instead of the real thing? I think this is a major concern that should be discussed before getting into such a project.

Calum:
1) who cares?

2) no.

let me expand:

1) when has a new product ever worried about how it will affect the market? new products are supposed to attempt to glut the market and that's it.they do not usuallyworry about the touchy feely aspects of everybody having a nice timetogether because competition is not like that.

2) it's not going to be official, it sounds like it'll not really be the same as MacOSX in a lot of ways, if it was, what would be the point in it? it's simply identifying a new market and catering for it.

hm_murdock:
Calum's got it exactly right. the idea is *not* to create an OS X clone. If anything, it's going to be a NeXT clone with some OS X ideas tossed in for some measure of "familiarity", because OS X's way of doing some things are much less jarringly different than NeXT.

The point is to create something that's both an evolution of NeXT, and it's own unique UI. The underlying OS is very definitely built on NeXT's concepts, but it takes some things even farther, such as the folder structure.

UNIX and clones use myriad folders for storing bits and pieces. NeXT and its derivatives put all the UNIX stuff in /private and then all the higher-level parts go into /System/Library, /Library, and some user-specific  bits fall into ~/Library

We want to put the /private folder inside of /System, get rid of /Library, so that only /System/Library exists, and have ~/Library be replaced by ~/Preferences.

Remember, saying "we want to base it on NeXT" doesn't mean "OS X clone"... OS X is a NeXT derivative, not NeXTStep itself. OS X is NeXT with the Mac UI rules applied to it. We'd take NeXT and just change its UI some to friendly it up.

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