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newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System

Posted by michael on from the new-pair-of-dimes dept.

Manuel Arriaga writes "After two years of hard work (and many scrapped versions), I have just released a (ugly, but working!) preview version of newdocms, a completely new document management system. newdocms isn't a file browser: it is a layer between the hierarchical file system (HFS) and the user, which provides a radically new way to store and retrieve documents. No longer will you browse complex directory trees or directly interact with the HFS; instead, you define any number of document attributes when saving a document and then query a database of those attributes when trying to retrieve it later on. For the first time you have a true alternative to the hierarchical file system at the OS level. Through the modification of the KDE shared libraries, newdocms currently works with all KDE apps! (I am looking for volunteers to add support for GNOME and OpenOffice.org!) This is a testament to the power of free software: this sort of innovation could never happen if it weren't for the free software nature of the underlying systems."

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  1. Re:What's wrong with hierachical systems anyway? by MacAndrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's wrong with hierachical systems anyway?

    Well, they're pretty darn hard to spell, for one thing. ;-)

  2. LIAR! by gazbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft couldn't have come up with this idea: the submission explicitly states that it wouldn't be possible outside the free software model. QED.

  3. Re:What's wrong with hierachical systems anyway? by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny

    The answer is in the G:\archived\userFolders\shlemiel\appfiles\textdocs \myFavEditorFiles\compDocs\scratch\WhyHierarchical FSBad.txt file.

  4. Re:Folders by L.Torvalds · · Score: 0, Funny
    (Russian puppets - forgot the name).


    They are called 'Finland'.
  5. Whooooah!! by Marxist+Commentary · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thought that said new dot coms for a second there! Not again!

    But thankfully, it's an article about file systems.

    --

    Stop corporate

  6. Re:More radical please by Obiwan+Kenobi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, it was just a movie.

  7. Re:What's wrong with hierarchical systems anyway? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've noticed about three main types of people in the world of open source

    Unfortunately you overlook the fourth and largest group -- those who COMPLAIN about everything and do nothing. :)