EPIC OS

A talk I gave in 2010 showing how Flash could stand alone as an operating system by using XNU and WebKit. Now outdated, it is a funny fork in the road behind us. One Adobe could have ventured down.

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1. EPIC.OS Featuring artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
2. THE EPIC OS XNU • WebKit • FLASH
3. XNU IS OPEN? • The Apple Public Source License Last Updated 2003 • Apple's Open Source • Allows Epic.OS • Forward Compatible artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
4. WEBKIT, AN APP PLATFORM? artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
5. WEBKIT IS AN APP PLATFORM • JavaScript • HTML 5 • DOM artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
6. ISN'T FLASH PROPRIETARY? FLASH? artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
7. THE OPEN SOURCE FLEX FRAMEWORK "COMPILES" SWF • Open ecosystem since 2008 • Hundreds of open libraries • Hundreds of open projects • Air platform recently open artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
8. REALLY? • Yes, FLASH is Open • The open projects are amazing • Apple has moved to destroy it shown concern about it's future. • Adobe Streaming Media Server Enables Providers • The content owners pay Apple to charge viewers. • HTML5 has no DRM so Hulu can't use <video> tag. • Flash is more open than iTunes.
9. FLASH IS AN OPEN APP PLATFORM artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
10. FLASH IS AN APP PLATFORM • Object oriented • Complex data management • 3D engines • Game engines • Multiple authoring tools Adobe + third parties • C via Alchemy • No fee for developers to write apps artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
11. WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT EPIC.OS? • The first true web operating system. • Supports all of today's web (period). • No war on standards. • No crippled hardware. artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
12. WHAT CAN EPIC.OS RUN? • All of the web apps written for iPhone • All of the websites written in flash • All Adobe Air Apps • All of the web's video content • All of the websites you love artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
13. WHAT IS THE EPIC STACK? • Darwin • X11 • HTML5 & Javascript rendered by WebKit in OWB • Flash Standalone Binary for Darwin/X11 • Media library and device management with DoubleTwist • Media viewing with Boxee artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
14. BOXEE • Integrated every major codec: mpg avi divx et. al. • Flash, Silverlight, Windows Media • Already compiles for Darwin (AppleTV) • Built in TV App Platform artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
15. CONFIGURE THE IMPOSSIBLE EPIC.OS artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/
16. CONTENT COPYRIGHT 2010 TECHNOLOGIST MEDIA USAGE ALLOWED ONLY IF THIS LICENSE IS PRESERVED IN IT'S ENTIRETY. Prepared by SidGabriel All Rights Reserved http://open.arqera.com/epic/os artwork copyright http://skugga.deviantart.com/