Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sat 27th Sep 2008 01:16 UTC, submitted by J
SqueakNOS is an old idea that has gotten the kiss of life again. Squeak is a Smalltalk system built by Alan Kay and SqueakNOS is an attempt to remove the OS underneath Squeak. You can download a VMWare playable image from their sourceforge website or you can get an iso and more details about SqueakNOS from here.
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2008-09-28
Why the hate ? Would you have liked the article if it said "SqueakNOS - Running Squeak on bare metal" ?
Well its 2008 and all of know what an operating system looks like. But thats also a issue - because we are held back from preconceived notions (like everything is a file). So someone is working on a clean room implementation - maybe it will yield some interesting and innovative ideas.
If you went back to 1990 and heard someone was implementing a UNIX like OS from scratch that didnt build incrementally on System 5 or SCO - you might have said the same thing - no drivers ....
But sometimes good things do come out of impractical ideas.