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Has anyone heard of this OS or tried it?

Your thoughts, please.

1 posted on 07/28/2004 11:04:59 AM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; ShadowAce

Tech meta-ping


2 posted on 07/28/2004 11:05:26 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Zydecodependent.)
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Sounds like fun for some Amiga, PowerPC and Warp developers.

A closed source (as best as I can tell) processor specific O.S. isn't going to take the world by storm. But as a long list of kernels in a post above shows, there's plenty of room for alternatives.

8 posted on 07/28/2004 6:22:17 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (I was humble, before I was born. -- J Frondeur Kerry)
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To: martin_fierro
Quoting Dvorak, from the article you linked: He's off his rocker, I say, off his rocker.

Linux is not fragmented. It's big and diverse, with players focusing on everything from embedded apps (TiVo set top bixes, TV remote controllers, palm tops and wristwatches) to the extreme high end (NASA just announced a deal with Intel and SGI for a 10,240 processor system with 500 terabytes of ram - not disk - ram).

One Linux kernel development stream, with its head at Linus, remains, as always the centralizing force behind all this.

Desktops will take a bit longer to dominate ... years not months. Their time will come.

9 posted on 07/28/2004 6:29:59 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (I was humble, before I was born. -- J Frondeur Kerry)
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To: martin_fierro

Sounds like an operating system designed to put you to sleep.


10 posted on 07/29/2004 7:05:28 AM PDT by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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To: martin_fierro; ShadowAce; rdb3; shadowman99; RadioAstronomer

Hey, you started all of this, any thoughts?

Martin started all of this, I just thought you other guys might be interested.


11 posted on 08/03/2004 8:43:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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