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Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by codetrotter » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:44 PM UTC

eddieroger wrote: post #55

codetrotter wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or instead of Linux they could join something FreeBSD-based, like ravynOS https://ravynos.com/ > We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So, we are creating ravynOS — an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD. Imagine former Apple employees joining them! That’d be so awesome!

The most recent release of ravyn seems to be from 2022. I'm not sure they'd take this on if they started tomorrow.

The more reason for a bunch of experts from Apple to join, right? ;)

To bring their expertise and help out with challenges that are currently blocking this project from progress.

Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by DCH3416 » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

nsonha wrote: post #59

horsawlarway wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So extra context that may help at least understand the perspective: There was a considerable amount of overlap between the browser and the file manager originally. The notion of the modern day internet wasn't really here, and instead a lot of companies saw "browsing the web" as mostly equivalent to "browsing your files - but remotely". Even Microsoft did this - "Windows Explorer" (The file manager) and "Internet Expl…

I believe you could type a web address into Explorer and it loads the site... or the other way around, my memory is hazy

You can still do that to this day. But it seems like now it hooks into edge or presumably the default browser.

Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by phendrenad2 » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 8:31 PM UTC

It was truly a time of irrational hype if people thought they could just make a File Manager and recoup millions.

Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by kuhl » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 3:41 AM UTC

Suppafly wrote: post #50

joshmarinacci wrote: post #7

Wow. I remember this. I really wanted to work for them. I dreamed of giving the Gimp a giant overhaul.

>I dreamed of giving the Gimp a giant overhaul. Has anyone done that yet or does it still look like crap?

Honestly it would be better if Blender ported over all the image filters and such. GIMP users don't want change.

Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by amandasystems » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 5:58 AM UTC

dewey wrote: post #19

codetrotter wrote: post #9

> Susan Kare designed new vector graphics-based iconography, having designed the original Macintosh icons > […] > On March 13, 2001, Eazel simultaneously launched the first release of Nautilus (version 1.0), and laid off most of its 75 employees in an attempt to secure funding in its final few months. > […] > The Nautilus file manager was received positively, and has been incorporated into GNOME since GNOME version 1…

She sells really nice prints of her icons in case you are interested in that: https://kareprints.com

Quite the illustrious kareer (sorry I had to).

Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by stuaxo » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 7:41 PM UTC

Nautilus seemed much cooler in those days.

I think the whole file manager as "browser" was interesting - the idea of blurring the boundaries between local and server, support for webdav on the major platforms came from a similar place and also would have been interesting if used more.

Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

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Post by samstave » Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 3:57 AM UTC

breadwinner wrote: post #54

What "ex-Apple" Andy Hertzfeld is most famous for, is for being a co-founder of General Magic [1]. General Magic's social interface was seen as a threat by Microsoft, and they responded to the threat with Microsoft Bob [2]. Sun found the agent technology of General Magic interesting, and they responded with Oak, which later became Java [3]. After General Magic collapsed Hertzfeld founded Eazel. I remember attending a…

We need a term for: (This is Tech Specific, but all Industries need this)::

When a memory long forgot is resurrected and a whole dormant pathway of neurons get fingerd, pinged, and tracert with a new TTL, and now that I commented - added to my AI.PII.MS-NSA-OAI.AWS.gov.json.py (I wonder how many records I have under any given TLD?

(I remembered a lot about this just by seeing this post that I had long forgot just how much I knew back then...)

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If anyone is spry, on the internet make a "sqlK-box" we can be prompted with a random word/phrase/picture within a given category (like "Silicon Valley" "GPUs" "COMPANY" - but with a date range "Silicon valley 2000s" - or "COMPANY 2020") and you have N time to relive a memory on that topic - then you compare responses from others to the same temporal topic to see what the shared memory landscape looks like. or deltas.