[unios] Re: Generic design. More comments

[Pat Wendorf]

From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@ican.net>

> > Initially we need to
> > design it as flexible as possible.   Flexibility is not just a developer and
> > power user dream.  It is the home and corporate user that gets the benefits
> > of a flexible system because the developers and power users who set the
> > system up.  When I say flexibility, I mean, the base OS should do as little
> > as possible, while allowing everything else (UI, APPS) to be completely
> > flexible based on using
> > that simple background.
>
> I don't think home user bother about being able to change the UI at
> run-time, install a mew kernel without rebooting or switching drivers
> without rebooting. 60% of the home users don't have any idea of what it
> would be all about. They just want to play their games and print their
> texts. Also, coporate users don't care about flexibility. When the
> system runs once installed, it shouldn't be changed, and no new hardware
> is added. But it must run, and that's their need.

I'd have to disagree that home users would not see the benefit of being able to
update drivers without rebooting :)  Frankly 90% of my own work dealing with home
users is somehow driver related. UI's can be made into fashion statements, kinda
like desktop themes from Win95, one day you want your machine to look like OS/2 the
next X-Windows, just another flexibility element that makes the system more
likable.  And you're completely right, 60% of users don't know anything at all
about their machines.  With a flexible system, programs could do more of the
typical grunt work that unknoledgable users have to stuggle through every day.
Things like automatic driver and object updates (scary, but if done right very
nice).  Also the system flexibility will allow them to play their games, and print
their text, easier than before, and with more versatility, and hopefully with less
confusion, as there would be better ways to implement user friendless...

As for corporate users, the flexibility will be seen in the things they couldn't do
before they used this system.  Like logging into any system on the network, and
getting the exact same interface that they themselves have configured.  Just little
things that make the whole experience a little less maddening.  All this is
attained BECAUSE we have a totally flexible, completely (easily) configurable
system.

It would take a lot of work to have all that, but I do believe it is possible, and
all thanks to flexibility.

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