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Agreed. An "OSX-like" open source OS should be based on GNUStep, for starters.

Except, OpenStep is like visiting 1990 again. I just tried the OpenStep live CD this morning and it was painful.

Downloading this now, but I imagine it's not going to magically have great apps to go along with it.

A lot of people like minimalistic interfaces with pretty much no eye-candy. "Functional" is nice

granted, GS doesn't have the greatest of apps...

You're making the same assumption as the original article writer: that being like OSX is purely a visual quality.

At its heart, OSX *is* NextStep, just with a prettier GUI. In fact, the core objects in the Cocoa API are still named NS*.

Although I'm tempted to say Linux for the vacuous can't see that catching on. I think its a good thing to play with the appearance add a doc and try to make a cool Linux for the web generation.

With maybe a passing resemblance to OSX.

Me neither. What a horrible site. Facebook was nice and clean but it is starting to get cluttered with "apps".

Either way, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of having to upload pictures on flickr, myspace, and facebook so that all of my friends can see them. Facebook is really nice since it lets others tag your photos which can be tedious.

Either way...someone needs to abstract all of this crap and make the sites obsolete. I should be able to post a picture to one site and have it create the appropriate albums on whatever social sites I use. I should be able to reply to people's "walls" or people's messages through a single abstraction and not care whether it is on myspace, or facebook, or whatever. I'm just getting tired of it all.

yeah, that would be nice.

I use flickr but lately I've started using picasa. Facebook was OK as far as "social networking" sites go. I just can never see the point in them. The only one that seems of any value to me is LinkedIn.

I work at a public library and it amazes me how people come in and spend their entire allotted two hours on MySpace doing... nothing. Day in and day out.

*shakes head*

There are people working on that. Or atleast making it easier to manage _your_ information.
http://www.dataportability.org/" http://www.dataportability.org...

I think Dropbox(getdropbox.com) is great for pictures.

It integrates with your os(XP/Vista, OSX and soon: Linux.) You just put a folder with images into a special Photo folder in your dropbox-folder and automaticly generrates a photo gallery.

The link is not public(you have to give it to people), and there is no commentsor tagging like in Facebook, still worth checking out though.

so it facilitates stalking, wasting time and annoying invites to stupid "apps"? That isn't scary, just plain retarded.

So it facilitates stalking, wasting time and annoying invites to stupid "apps"? Excellent, I'm going to go throw up now.

I agree,

I thought they were talkin' about Darwin