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.

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 I need at least 10-20 billions 8)
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