Linked by Steffen Liebergeld on Thu 13th Jul 2006 17:26 UTC
DROPS is the educational operating system of the Dresden University
of Technology, Germany (TU-Dresden). Its name is an acronym for
Dresden Real-Time Operating System, which reveals its strongest
feature, it is real-time capable and it is designed with security in
mind. Its homepage can be found here. Note: This is the 4th entry to our Alternative OS Contest which runs through 14th July!
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2006-03-22
Author nicely presents different fetures of DROPS without going too much into internals/code. He also doesn't repeat "we're the best" all the time, and is honest about some problems awaiting for people who will want to hack/code for this system. Article has links to more informations, and even nice screenshots (though i think most of those different GUIs there are far from "good looking" they still show quite a lot
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. hopefully comment is understandable.
All written clearly and understandable - made me want to try demo cd (i'm downloading it while typing this comment).
IMHO best entry in contest so far.
Thanks
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fixed spelling mistake and some words layout (thanks to OSNews authors for edit option
Edited 2006-07-13 19:07