Welcome to the Tunes project

You shall read this warning before you go visit the Tunes project, or go directly to pointers to further Tunes work...


Warning !

This page, as all the Tunes project beneath, is currently under active construction...
Do regular "Reload"s to get the latest version. It may just have changed since you first loaded it !

Please do never hesitate to send the page maintainer's any feedback: questions, suggestions, ideas, corrections, remarks, opinions, or even insults, including about mistypes and broken english, are welcome, especially if you disagree or do not understand. Thus, the page can be improved, things explained better, or changed according to your arguments.
Each page's maintainer's e-mail address is always at the end of it.

You can also send mail to the whole Tunes mailing list, if you can't reach the maintainer, or keep disagreeing with him, or think the subject involves discussion from project members. Also, when things aren't settled on WWW, it's better to read the mailing list, then ask on there.

Finally, The above stands for every Tunes pages, and every page reader, whether active project member, or simply guest, even if no subsequent warning may be present.


What is Tunes ?

Actually, this is the first of many Frequently Asked Questions (a.k.a. FAQ) about Tunes.
Here are partial answers to these questions.

Tunes means Tunes is a Useful, Not Expedient, System. It is a project to design and implement (yet another) computing system, based upon a paradigm of total computing freedom.
Particularly, it would be a fine-grained, decentralized and distributed, persistent system, that would allow dynamical interaction in a unified way. Of course, it will also be secure and resilient to network failures.

The entire world may be virtually running the system with mostly isolated computers being considered as having very slow and unreliable network links. The project will freely distribute all its code over this world, and offer (non-free) support for it. Code will be copyrighted so that it will stay freely distributable, but the project will still control commercial use, distribution, and support of any code produced.

The project is recursively divided into subprojects each having its own maintainer, according to the Tunes Charter. This page is the root project of the above hierarchy.


Tunes addresses


Tunes papers


To Do on this page

  • Create glossary entries for all the lit words.
  • Find new members
  • Get feedback from the project members and other page readers.
  • Talk about the open development model, as used in Linux.
  • Bring lots o'graphics to impress the mob.


    Page Maintainer:
    Faré -- rideau@clipper.ens.fr