Some ideas for inspiration: --- Low level --- Highly reliable, flexible, and secure http://www.minix3.org/ http://www.minix3.org/ Filesystem that's intuitive

Some ideas for inspiration: --- Low level --- Highly reliable, flexible, and secure http://www.minix3.org/ http://www.minix3.org/ Filesystem that's intuitive, easy to learn, and makes sense http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance Declarative configuration management http://nixos.org/nixos/ http://nixos.org/nixos/ Support applications and drivers written for windows http://www.reactos.org/ http://www.reactos.org/ Better Security http://www.openbsd.org/security.html http://www.openbsd.org/security.html Update software silently and instantly http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-infinite-version.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-infinite-versio... Application Permissions http://codezqr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Android-Permissions.jpg http://codezqr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Android-P... --- User level --- Remove X11 http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Application Directories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_directory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_directory http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ Amazing basic applications http://www.apple.com/osx/apps/ http://www.apple.com/osx/apps/ Unify notifications http://growl.info/ http://growl.info/ http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/#notifications http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/#notifications