Welcome to Senitrus OS?. This OS is intended to provide for a Debian based operating system that I won’t have to seek permission for. In example, if I would have wanted to have Ubuntu, I will have to go to the developers of Ubuntu, and ask nicely for permission to install their OS on my computers. I am not sure what conditions may lie, and not sure what modifications I will be allowed to do. Even if they agree in the beginning, they can cut off allowance from what every machine has not been sold yet at any time.
There are also things I think every operating system should have without downloading any special software. With that said, I would create an OS based on the free and open Debian, and will use Debian’s app repository, and that will give me the apps I will need to make this a viable OS. There are already some tools integrated with Debian, and they will remain unless one of the applications I will need written will work.
Also, by having my own Operating System, I can do neat little tricks such as aliasing drives with letters. In Linux, a drive is referenced as a directory in the drive it is in. It doesn’t make much sense, but it does work. I will use an aliasing protocol for the drives, and that would allow the system to work with either using drives letters, or using the directory path. By using aliases, I am not bricking anything by using the drive letters. Drive letters may also have numbers when partitions are involved. An example, if there are 2 partition on the C:/ drive, then it would be C.1:/, and C.2:/. When referencing file locations throughout this domain, it will always use the drive aliasing pathway rather than me trying to find the absolute path.
Since Senitrus Computers all have 4 drives in the system, this allows for a set of drives that all computers will share. More information can be found in another page. The programs provided will be in one of eight categories as follows:
- Communications
- Entertainment
- Internet
- Office
- Productivity
- Utilities
- Web (Web Apps)
- Window Pane (Windows Emulator)
There will be other folders for those that might have a different thought process. For example, browser will be in Internet. A web app will be in the Web Folder. The only example I can think of will be Google Docs for online document editing. You would provide the URL, give the web app a name, and you have that “program” in the web folder.