http://www.osnews.com/story/20488/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:23:23 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?337693 http://osnews.com/thread?337693 This guy used to spam random topics with his pitch for this thing.
I thought the long silence meant we were rid of him. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (axel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337696 http://osnews.com/thread?337696 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. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (maxbash) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337702 http://osnews.com/thread?337702 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). Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337703 http://osnews.com/thread?337703 Looks a lot like dosshell of old. The non-standard C is the dealbreaker for me. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TObYv) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337723 http://osnews.com/thread?337723 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. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Xaero_Vincent) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337732 http://osnews.com/thread?337732 Looks like my Amiga 1.3... with 64 bits support! lol Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ricardo Saraiva) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337741 http://osnews.com/thread?337741 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. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337747 http://osnews.com/thread?337747 Haven't you heard about the movement to replace OS network stacks with DMA from the interface card and user-space TCP/IP? Much more efficient.

Van Jacobson network channels, I believe its called. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zlynx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337748 http://osnews.com/thread?337748 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. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (joshv) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337750 http://osnews.com/thread?337750 The text-based user interface reminds me most of Oberon. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments