Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th Oct 2007 23:02 UTC
"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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RE[3]: first post ? (on the topic of OSNames)
by Buck on Sun 7th Oct 2007 06:38
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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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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.
Try Brazilian Portuguese then... Here "mona" is how transsexuals* and transvestites* refer to each other and are referred to.
(* Not that I find any kind of sexual preference demeaning at all, but trust me, calling someone "mona", even among transsexuals and transvestites, has a demeaning connotation...)
Anyway, it's "Mona" from "Monad", the mathematical construct found in group theory, and in the particular case of this OS, "Monad" the adaptation of this construct to allow sane representation of side-effects on functional programming languages.
(Be thankful it's not 'echo MonadOS | sed s/M/G/' ...)
Edit: correct usage of prepositions in English language still mystify me.
Edited 2007-10-07 16:25
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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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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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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
...