Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th Oct 2007 23:02 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes "MonaOS is a free operating system. It's new, small, simple, open source and well structured. So, MonaOS may be suitable for education of operating system and program at school." It's a microkernel-based operating system, MIT-licensed, and available for IA-32.
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first post ?
by mmu_man on Sat 6th Oct 2007 23:24 UTC
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Member since:
2006-09-30

Hmm, does it run on pre-Macintosh machines ?
That's make a MonaLisa ;)

(Sorry it's really late here :p)

RE: first post ?
by Joe User on Sun 7th Oct 2007 01:10 in reply to "first post ?"
Joe User Member since:
2005-06-29

LOL... "Mona" means "Blond" in Latin-American Spanish. BlondOS. Who said blonds don't have the right to use a computer?

Anyway, I wonder if people are able to name an operating system without the terrible ~OS suffix.

PCLinuxOS
CentOS
SkyOS
ReactOS
MuchachOS
NachOS
...

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RE[2]: first post ?
by sadangel on Sun 7th Oct 2007 01:38 in reply to "RE: first post ?"
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2006-11-04

It means "cute" in European Spanish.

Would you prefer the old *nix version? Monanix maybe?

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RE[2]: first post ?
by thavith_osn on Sun 7th Oct 2007 03:30 in reply to "RE: first post ?"
thavith_osn Member since:
2005-07-11

You can prefix it, like OS X ;-)

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RE[2]: first post ?
by GhePeU on Sun 7th Oct 2007 08:49 in reply to "RE: first post ?"
GhePeU Member since:
2005-07-06

LOL... "Mona" means "Blond" in Latin-American Spanish. BlondOS. Who said blonds don't have the right to use a computer?

In my native dialect (in fact it's a different language, but for historical reasons it's considered a dialect) "mona" means "c*nt." Draw your conclusions.

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RE[2]: first post ?
by iskios on Sun 7th Oct 2007 12:25 in reply to "RE: first post ?"
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2005-07-06

Um, I have never heard of a blonde being referred to as a "mona" in Spanish. Might be rather insulting since mona is actually a female monkey.

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RE[2]: first post ?
by theteam on Mon 8th Oct 2007 12:21 in reply to "RE: first post ?"
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2007-09-28

Anyway, I wonder if people are able to name an operating system without the terrible ~OS suffix.


For example Symobi -> http://www.symobi.com/

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RE[2]: first post ?
by BiPolar on Wed 10th Oct 2007 12:11 in reply to "RE: first post ?"
BiPolar Member since:
2007-07-06

As a Latin-American Spanish native speaker: mona does not mean blond.

"Mona" is the female for "Mono" (monkey).

That word is sometimes used in phrases like: "Que mona es esa chica" ("That girl is cute").

So it seems to be used in the same way as in "European Spanish".

Just my 2 pesos.

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