i dont have that problems since after my redhat9 ... not that i know how to configure it(believe me , i dont) which is a good thing ... i think linux is getting closer and closer to want we want it to be and definately can do a lot more ...


//.2 cents ...

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Well, the OP says you were hired to design a linux distro and your BUDGET is 1 Billion. I would assume you cannot spend it on fast cars, women, booze, poor, homeless, or anything other than a Linux distro.

Yeah, I know what the OP wrote. What I am saying is that the premise is so ridiculous that he cannot expect serious answers. harishankar seems to agree (or at least see my point).

Here's another 'serious' answer: I would use $10000 to rebrand and cut a bunch of Gentoo CDs, and pocket the other $999990000...

Want me to go away Sepero? Just explain why you think you need a billion dollars to create such an operating system ;)

If I had a billion dollars, I'd scrap the OS project and buy lots and lots of land to preserve it. Like buy a big bulk of the Amazon and other land that is endangered of being destroyed by evil corporations that want to turn the world into a big slab of concrete.

Lets see here
I'd create a new FS, modeled after a database system like SQL
I'd make real documention
none of this sparse terse example ridden texts we have now
documentation that when you do: man [cmd]
one of the first things you see is an example of the syntax
not [cmd] [ -o /path [options [sodomy] ] [more options] [-optional but needs to be in this order] [can only be used after the latter option but the optional sodomy switch needs to be used but not the next switch] [I format everything into fat12 of you use me but somehow I'm very important]
ect ect ect

and DRIVERS!
hardware support
we have enough distros now as it is
we need stuff that makes it easier to use now - if not for us for the average generic user.

Voltron
 

Women are like Voltron. The more you hook up, the better it gets.

I will hire lots of programmers, some interaction designers and some graphic designers and develop ZenSUI (an interface) and bonsai (an API for the interface) all in OpenGL.

If I had that much money, I'd spend most of it lobbying against the Republicans. ;)

What will it take to tear down Microsoft and Oracle? That'd be my next goal.

"If you had a billion dollars..." is a good thread idea.

Why invest any money in a new operating system when there are great ones being developed now?

I would invest money in my personal favourites.

To freshen things up a bit maybe?

hmmmmm.

I just realised I could very easily turn this thread into a song.

I think Billion dollars aren't enough to develop real good OS. In the best case you'll get some shitty one like MS Windows :p I need at least 10-20 billions 8)
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