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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2005-09-03
I believe you are reading some things into what I said. I am in no way against experimental implementations or innovation. I don't care if you want to try to use an "everything is a function,file,object,kitchensink" paradigm.
All I said was I think all this talk of "getting rid of the OS" is silly. In this case, the OS really just being reimplemented in a way that is tighter with the language's run time.
My reaction is due to all these people saying things like "OMG the internet is killing the OS". Last time I checked you need an OS to run your web server or web browser on. An even in you integrated OS functionality into your web browser (which I am not endorsing!), your web browser would then become both a browser and an OS.
On a side note, I think this project fails to realize that the best part of a traditional OS is supporting multiple languages. Single language operating systems don't tend to last the test of time.
All this said, I wish them only the best, their results will be interesting.