"The HelenOS project is an effort to develop a complete and usable modern operating system, yet offering room for experimenting and research. HelenOS uses its own microkernel written from scratch and supports SMP, multitasking and multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and big-endian processor architectures, among wich are AMD64/EM64T (x86-64), ARM, IA-32, IA-64 (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC, SPARC V9 and Xen 3.0. Thanks to the relatively high number of supported architectures and suitable design, HelenOS is extremely-well portable."
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Member since:2005-07-06
True, but there needs to be a momentum started - but quite honestly I don't think computers in the traditional sense are all that exciting; the future is mobility, that is where the focus should be; we will still need operating systems like Solaris/Linux but the big money and focus will be on multifunctional devices like smart mobile phones etc.
Member since:2005-07-06
and there you also find linux.
hell, i picked up a cheap nokia 770 "web tablet" not to long ago, running linux.
and here is a article about how linux came to appear on mobile phones:
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2590177877.html
hell, im using pidgin (formerly gaim) as the im client on my 770. the same im client thats part of the gnome desktop iirc. to me that shows the power of open source, and the moldabillity of the linux "ecosystem".
when you have that kind of portability things get interesting to say the least 
Member since:
2006-02-04
yes, now it is, but i wasn't until the late '90s-'00s that it became open/gratis.