If You Could Assemble a "FrankenOS" What Parts Would You Use?

[PsychoFish]

While commenting about log-structured file systems in relation to flash SSDs, I referenced Digital's Spiralog [pdf], released for OpenVMS in 1996. This got me thinking about how VMS to this day has some of, if not the best storage clustering (still) in use today. Many operating systems have come and gone over the years, particularly from the minicomputer era, and each usually had something unique it did really well. If you could stitch together your ideal OS, then which "body parts" would you use from today and reanimate from the past? I'd probably start with VMS's storage system, MPE's print handling, OS/2's Workplace Shell, AS/400's hardware abstraction and GNU's Bash shell. What would you choose?

I would probably want Windows 7 GUI, definitely want Bash as the CLI, have to admit that the AS/400's HAL is superior, would prefer YUM/YUMex as a package manager, BSD's network manager, from a base kernel perspective probably Sun Solaris, Memory management would have to be Linux 3.x based and finally I want damn DirectX. File system wise I want ZFS.

[blaaislaai]

GUI: GNOME
Linux 4.x kernel/ Windows NT Kernel combo (hybrid)
ext4 file system

Any other parts I don't care much about, the above are the essentials.

MUST run both Linux and Windows apps natively, I'm sure this is possible, it would only require a shitload of dev work and probably be illegal due to windows not being "free/Opensource"

[Dohc-WP]

Gui OSX

Kernel: hybrid Windows 7/8 with a hypervisor to run osx & android apps natively

OS & Apps must be able to run on any system without recompiling ie X86/64 ,Arm, PowerPC


Filing System: WinFS (according to bill it was the next best thing since sliced cheese so im rolling with that)

All Icon Resources must be 512x512 in PNG format

[PsychoFish]

GUI: GNOME
Linux 4.x kernel/ Windows NT Kernel combo (hybrid)
ext4 file system

Any other parts I don't care much about, the above are the essentials.

MUST run both Linux and Windows apps natively, I'm sure this is possible, it would only require a shitload of dev work and probably be illegal due to windows not being "free/Opensource"

Gui OSX

Kernel: hybrid Windows 7/8 with a hypervisor to run osx & android apps natively

OS & Apps must be able to run on any system without recompiling ie X86/64 ,Arm, PowerPC


Filing System: WinFS (according to bill it was the next best thing since sliced cheese so im rolling with that)

All Icon Resources must be 512x512 in PNG format

I still prefer ZFS, however ext4 comes a good second. The biggest thing for me with ZFS is designed with a focus on data integrity and deduplication, it's also quite nippy even with encryption and compression enabled. In other words it's the T-1000 of filesystems.

[blaaislaai]

[MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] I will play on that FS one day, sounds like it can be an awesome in conjunction with a SSD