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after the BeOS fiasco ??

http://www.skyos.org/

they are brave within a market that wants nothing but standards...

besides SkyOS doesn't seem to target servers nor embedded devices but desktop users o_O


so, when for a SkyOS demo ? :D

doesnt look bad... although the skin looks horribly macosx (bleh)

Only €29 to become a beta tester! What a deal!

lol
this project is years old...
originally he wanted to make a windows like os totally coded in assembler...
looks like he is using linux c++ open source packets now ;)

i'm stating the obvious but
he's timbalanding graphics from microsoft!

LOL, some people don't know when to stop :-)

Syllable is better and free, seriously.

seriously, is there another interest than pedagogy and geek pride ?

menueos anyone?

wasn't there like haiku-os?
http://haiku-os.org/

dnes, i recall having donated a small amount of money (like 5€) and gotten a beta tester status unrequested. i don't think those beta copies are a scarce resource, so one might simply try asking the developer nicely.

Gargaj : ReactOS sucks... Immitating the Windows NT-Derivants uh.. Plai blasphemy and shall the developers be tortured!

Decipher: at least it gets all the windows drivers (and software of course) in the wild...

Haiku => lol.

I actually used BeOS for a whole year (dualboot with Windows of course), and it _was_ actually rather revolutionary. Now though, trying to bring it back is like kicking a dead dog.

What was so revolutionary about it?

tribão: For one, it had a journalling filesystem, proper multitasking and it was _fast_ :)

Nice

BeOS was a fiasco,indeed.

But it was also a GREAT OS.

Go and sit in the corner with the Amiga people.

I read about SkyOS a while ago on osnews.com and never really saw the point, but perhaps there's a niche market for stuff like that.

ReactOS makes sense for people who, unfortunately, need to run proprietary Win32 stuff and/or need a Win32 environment to work with.

BeOS was damn cool when it was released, with some features that were really ahead of its time. So was Plan9, but it never caught up. Eventually Microsoft's market department won with a half assed kernel and a broken API.

Now Windows is the past and the unices (OS X, *BSD, Linux) have won the desktop war.

NeXT!

uhuh flynn i guess you are kindly trolling, so as you may wait for a reaction here is my 2 eurocent one :

OSX has made a big success among casual (rich) users, artists and some niche professionals, Linux desktops are superfine now (perfect for many office users, administrations, associations, schools, emergency LiveCD, etc... and kudos to Beryl for adding both innovative and kinda useable 3D), Vista did disappoint (no WinFS, DX10 kidnapping, new driver architecture supposed to be more secure but many manufacturers are still struggling to provide decent ones to their customers, etc...), BUT no way i'll switch from Windows on my main boxes, it's not an ideological matter, it's just plain pragmatism : all the specific tools, demos, games i need or enjoy are actually running on Windows, and that won't change in the near future.