[linuxontheweb]

How's this for a word peanut: It's like Linux... only on the web.

Perhaps the most important aspect of Linux is its ability to provide an interface between the low-level files sitting on a hard drive and the (C system call) application layer.

The main point of this project is currently the ability to provide a dependable interface between the low-level files sitting in the browser-managed sandbox and the (JS call) application layer.

Once people start getting comfortable with the idea that the files in their web browsers are as dependable as the files in their native systems, then we can start having more serious discussions about the exact use cases that might follow.

It'll have to involve an evolutionary process just like GNU/Linux itself experienced in the 1990's.

[marginalia_nu]

People read a lot of different things into the word Linux, so saying something is like Linux without qualifying in what sense is probably going to be confusing to a lot of people.

Like I've been using Linux for 20 years, you bet "like Linux" conjures up different ideas in my head than in for example my girlfriend's, she has mostly interacted with modern Linux DEs, never configured XFree86 in vim on a 15" CRT and has no fond memories of sysvinit.

Communication is tricky that way.