So how would you envision that the Emacs OS should be structured/used?

rthomas6 · on July 25, 2014

Something like this:

  sudo aptitude purge emacs
  sudo apt-get install vim gvim
  gvim

Edit: Clearly I'm joking. If you wanted a serious answer, Emacs is just a large, easily extensible program. It's not really an OS. That's like saying Google Chrome (contains a package manager, web browser, text editor, scripting language, and much more) is an OS.

SoftwareMaven · on July 26, 2014

You have heard of Chromebooks, right? It wouldn't be a far stretch to imagine a developer laptop where Emacs was the entire interface.

rthomas6 · on July 26, 2014

Chrome OS runs on a Linux kernel. Linux is the core OS for Chromebooks. Similarly, an "Emacs OS" would need a real OS underneath it.

tuhdo · on July 30, 2014

Emeacs is an OS. It just needs its own kernel.