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Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS

Posted by timothy on from the bits-and-bobs dept.

Dave Girard has written a lengthy description of how to design the best possible operating system for creative pursuits (video editing, photo manipulation, and sound editing, in particular) — at least the the best possible one he can imagine by selecting from the best tools and behaviors that he finds in Mac OS X, Windows, and (mostly Ubuntu) Linux. He makes a compelling case for the OS (or at least a GUI on top of it) having baked-in support for a wide range of image formats and codecs, and makes some pointed jabs along the way at what each of these three big players do wrong.

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  1. BeOS by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thought experiment, what if we completed the pro feature list of the main linux multimedia apps and optionally ported them to a BeOS derivative (haiku)?

    You see, thinking is easy.

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  2. Re:Beos was a media OS, went out with a sputter. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Funny

    "I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it."
    -- Jean-Louis Gassee, CEO Be, Inc.

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  3. Re:So he wants KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    iAgree