Preparing Linux for the Future It Really Deserves
#This post is the 2 part of a series “development of Ultra Linux”
Let me put some kind of principles here before starting this:
- It should be hackable.
This does not mean unsafe, this means PIMPable.
Easy to customize, from the new to the power users. - It should be open.
Because who makes black box softw… malware don’t deserve to live among us. Unless It’s cool malware that helps our privacy to be respected. - It must be beautiful.
State of the art from the UX to the code. - It must respect the computer culture.
We are here to have fun, and most important, to have real time information. This is something that was never achieved before, and now is used among us to hypnotize and exploit our emotions. Do you noticed that a lot of people don’t even have a computer these days? I can’t imagine myself with the 2 billion people that thinks “Faceb..” is the whole internet. - It must be safe.
And this means to welcome hackers and pentesters, introducing new cutting edge tech, teaching people to protect themselves against the real problem.
With this in mind, let’s proceed.
1. (open) Artificial Intelligence
All amazing tech of the future comes with a dope voice assistant.
Can you imagine yourself traveling space without an artificial intelligence? It’s up to you if It’s going to be R2D2 or HAL9000…
Mycroft.ai
After some good research in this field, the conclusion is that Mycroft.ai is amazing. Apart of being Sherlock Holmes brother’s name, It’s free and open source, so the code is there and you can just read it.
Also you can operate without recording your voice and deal better with your data. They are the true the “open ai”.
And the most important: IT’S HACKABLE.
This means “Hey Ai, do me {whatever you programmed}”
Yeah, future.
This is so sexy. And you are not doing it to the biggest world billionaire.
Also a good tool for security hackers to automate their processes with style.
(Mycroft already have aircrack adapted to It, why not adapt the rest?)
He also teaches you to make Moscow Mules, jokes, duckduckgo and wikipedia information, weather, program IOTs, and ask how tall is Adam Sandler.
Another good point is that, you know, the more you use a machine learning service, the more it learns. What kind of Ai should be the most intelligent one? It’s up to you.
Ultra Linux comes with Mycroft pre-installed.
(And on my opinion, other distros should include it too on the next few years.)
2. Design
If there is something that all kinds of designers agree is that all the major Linux distros stopped in time around 2008–2011. The default gnome/kde icons don’t seems to follow any visual identity principles. You read that right, this means no identity. About the other custom icon packs… oh boy.
Elementary OS
Elementary can be a lot of things, I know, but when It comes to design he is the king. The community have organized help specifications about design patterns, making it actually the most beautiful and flowed Linux distribution of the new generation post-ubuntu.
But It’s a bit macintoshy, and very limited on the first boot too.
That’s why we’re gonna tweak it to the bone and make It superuser friendly ;]
This bad boy is a bit underrated because of It’s lack of included stuff, but at the same time this makes It the best platform to develop something new. Generally It does not take too long to understand his dynamic usability and trust me, when you’re coding it’s so good to have stuff organized and flowing.
It’s ubuntu based, but later I can make some debian + pantheon + tweaks for the anti-cannonical guys. But ubuntu also means less hardware compatibility problems, what is nice for all types of users.
3. The visual Identity of Ultra Linux
People already tried to imagine the future before us.
One of the craziests was the so called retrofuturism aka. atompunk of the 60’s and 70's.
We are doing something really close to it;
But now we got the tech.
