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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 21:30 UTC, submitted by ohxten

"Whitix is a 32-bit operating system for the Intel and AMD range of processors, licensed under the GNU GPL. It features a C compiler (tcc), Python, assembler (nasm), text editor, shell and filesystem formatter. See the Introduction to Whitix for more information." Version 0.03 was released a month ago. My, aren't we sharp today.

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Another one?

by madcrow on Thu 27th Mar 2008 00:22 UTC

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2006-03-13

How many POSIX-ish Desktop OSes do we need? The FOSS world is already hard at work on two "desktop only" OSes of the sort (Haiku and Syllable) and some crazy hacker with more of a profit motive has been banging away at SkyOS for years, too. When you combine those with the fact that Linux (and these days FreeBSD) can form quite a nice base for a GUI desktop system, I frankly fail to see the point of this one.

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RE: Another one?

by Alboin on Thu 27th Mar 2008 00:43 in reply to "Another one?"

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2007-10-17

It seems to be a hobby OS. If you've ever checked out osdev there are hundreds, if not thousands of hobby OS's that follow POSIX's ideas. Most of them never make it past the initial development stage, and ones like this are the result of a lot of determined work, and are quite rare.

Their point is usually a combination of study and or accomplishment.

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RE[2]: Another one?

by ebasconp on Thu 27th Mar 2008 03:00 in reply to "RE: Another one?"

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2006-05-09

I think Linux started his OS as another hobby OS too.

We do not know whether one of these "experiments" will grow up as a mainstream OS.

Anyway, doing something that starts in the bare metal and gets stood in its own feet is a very respectable thing.

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