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This guy used to spam random topics with his pitch for this thing.
I thought the long silence meant we were rid of him.

Anybody else think it looks like Douglas Engelbart's NLS from 1968? Looks like someone wanted a modern dos, with the some of ideas of a modern *nix, but with the low level ability of dos. The use of "dir" for directory listing makes this obvious.

I had never seen this project mentioned on OS News before, but stumble upon it a couple of weeks ago after seeing it mentioned on another OS's website.

The ISO download worked fine, and the OS boots and runs as it should (AFAIK).

Interesting hobby project.

However, outside of this context, the author literally promises that the OS will never get anywhere.

Just glance at the items listed under PROMISES.

An OS today with no networking stack is as good as useless.

Looks like my Amiga 1.3... with 64 bits support! lol

To those talking about internet and networking: it's a toy OS. It's meant to be used to have some fun and learn something. If you want networking, plus unix heritance, plus drivers for your latest nvidia, get yourself linux or freebsd, or a mac.

It would be nice if these Hobby OSes started shipping themselves with a stripped down Linux VM environment. They reason they don't do networking, video and sound well is the massive variety of hardware they'd have to support. If somebody could create an extremely lean Linux based VM host environment, with exactly one video card, sound card, network card, etc, then these hobby OSes could have a chance at providing a reasonably workable visual OS with a networking stack, with minimal effort.

Note, I am not talking about a user created VM environment, I am talking about a VM environment which ships with the hobby OS, and is always guaranteed to be there - it's literally part of the release.