Linked by Michael Reed on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 18:23 UTC
There are at this time, a number of what I would term 'OS re-creation projects' (OSRs) in active development. These are OSes that attempt, by varying degrees, to re-implement the features of another operating system. In this article, I'm going to explore some of issues surrounding projects of this type. In the second half of the article, I apply these observations and examine two example platforms (Amiga and OS/2) and the related re-creation OSes.
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A fair point but I had to be selective in terms of which operating systems I looked at or the article would have been even longer.
I am quite familiar with Amiga and OS/2 and that eased the research stage. In addition, I had some points that I wanted to make about those OSes.
I might do a follow up at some point featuring BEOS, WIN NT, etc inspired projects.
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By way of example, let us say that a group of people might set out to create an open source clone of the Microsoft Windows operating system so that they could release it as freeware. In this example, it is the licence and the development model which vary from the original source OS.
Ehm. It's me, or this guy is completely unaware of the existence of ReactOS? It would have been the most obvious OS featured in this article.
(Also, I haven't seen Haiku/Blueeyedos and the like)