Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
Saturday November 8, I received an email from someone, inquiring if I would be interested in "doing a first interview/introduction into a new operating system". We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time.
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if you really want ot take a kernel to build on top of dont take linux. Take something like QNX. While there are less drivers for it the kernel itself is more stable and has far less overhead. With all due respect for linux (and i mean try linux, the kernel) there are better things to use as a templete for creating a "new" OS. NetBSD 5's code base would be another good example, small, fast, moduler. But I wish them the best of luck.
also as far as OS's that have taking the linux kernel and tried their own thing, there is also The Athene Operating System ( http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/ ). I happen to like them white a bit, and their omega workd bend GUI reminds me of my old Amiga 4000t. good times.
Edited 2008-11-10 23:22 UTC