Anyone want to develop a fully-java language Operating System?
I have a thought:
Why don't we developers start an open source, java-language operating system? Does anyone out there have a server on which you could put a website like JavaOpenSourceOS.org or something? Then let everyone contribute code? We could build a diagram of the diff. parts it would need, and have each part be its own project on the website. If Linux could do it, why can't we Java developers?
I'm in if anyone wants to join!
rpjava@hotmail.com
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6tr6tr] at [2007-9-26 2:59:14]
Note that the kernel team (JJOS) is virtually non-existent. A monumental amount of work has been put into hardward support for Win32 and Linux. That work will not be duplicated any time soon for JOS without a commercial effort.
But a Pure Java desktop environment built on top of the Linux kernel is doable. That's basically the strategy used for MacOS X.
However, I would be inclined to work on tight integration of the Java platform with the opensource GNOME desktop instead. That's because GNOME is built using a language-agnostic distributed computing standard called CORBA. J2EE and J2SE already ship with CORBA integration tools. The GNOME environment is available for both Linux and Solaris, and Sun supports the GNOME development effort.
walpj at 2007-6-29 10:55:03 >
