Mac Futureware
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This page lists a few projects that I have in mind for the Mac OS X platform, but I haven't actually started. Time permitting, I intend to initiate one or more of these, possibly in collaboration with academia (and maybe even collaboration with / support from Apple).
Mac OS X's answer to the much touted WinFS on Longhorn. A file system powered by a relational database. Apple's upcoming release of Mac OS X ("Tiger") has this technology (called "Spotlight").
Virtualization support for Mac OS X. Similar in many ways to the upcoming "Zones" feature in Solaris 10. Look here for details.
The "Configuration File System". Abstraction of a system's entire configuration (including various applications's configurations) as a file system, including an API that lets applications access their individual configuration either "directly", or through traditional means ("conf" files).
Addition/extension of support for ACLs and capabilities in various Mac OS subsystems. This is particularly relevant to the server version of the OS. Apple's upcoming release of Mac OS X ("Tiger") incorporates ACLs.
A text on the design and implementation of Mac OS X. No longer futureware.
Various others, particularly for Mac OS X Server, that I am too lazy/impatient to list here.