Johan Bové

Actually: Beaker OS would be very similar to Google's Chrome OS which installs on many laptops. What would be necessary to make Beaker OS "bootable" ?

A list of basic applications any computer should have

• Editor: check: basic text editor and coding IDE (similar to VScode)
• Browser: check; similar to Chromium, without the extensions. Also issues with accessibility and internationalization.
• Application platform: check
• Address book: how would we integrate non-beaker profiles in the address book?
• Calendar: CalDav, web client
• Message client (email): web client
• File Manager: check, but issues with syncing with OS FUSE and Hyperdrive
• Terminal: check, and extensible with "Web Term Commands"
• Media player: some examples: Winamp player, video player?
• Photo Management: creating a photo gallery is easy. Web client?
• Chat client: IRCCloud, web clients
• "Office-like" applications: spreadsheet, editor, presentations: offline working spreadsheet?
• Games: many web games already out there. Some multi-player using Beaker api?
• Remote Desktop Client: not sure how this would work.

Regarding the editorconfig support:

That's a good question. Looking at the Github project and the number of integrations that are available for all editors, I would say it's fairly widely supported. https://github.com/editorconfig

It helps us to have everyone use spaces instead of tabs, even-though colleagues might use a different editor for coding.