possible: http://menuetos.org
http://www.skyos.org
http://openbeos.org
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ (cute bunny logo may finally get this niche OS
out of the lab and into the bedrooms of
teen girl hackers)
and whole pages of stuff
linked from http://cliki.tunes.org/Operating%20Systems
On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 02:22 AM, Ben Barrett wrote:
Agreed. I overlooked menuetos until I finally got mention of the GUI and--
impressive features. The screenshots are amazing, really impressive stuff
going on there! My main concern is the hardware support:
http://www.geocities.com/menuethw/byhardware.html
But I presume that will only get better. They claim, on the main page, to
go up to 1280x1024 resolution, but the support page doesn't list any
supported hardware at that res. I guess that means, "someone got it to
work at least once," but that it is not supported as-is.
I'm not clear as to whether the development on this has the floppy disk as a
goal/spec/constraint, but I forsee a 50MB bootable mini-cd in the future
that offers a knoppix-equivalent menuetos... and I mean equivalent by
functionality, since menuet "has no unix roots". But gosh, I just don't see
how driver bloat can be avoided (while still supporting new functionalities
like burning cd's, since they already have a webserver and lots of other
goodies). OH! I just found the second whole area for compatible hardware,
phew that helps a lot more:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/twruottu/moshw/index.html
Now I see, it is the Millennium G450 DH that does VESA mode 4, 1280x1024.
Cool project! Thanks for keeping the thread alive long enough for me to
pick up on it = ))
Ben
PS - How long until it forks/bloats with nasty modernities like C? (and perl, mime, ogg, filesystems, etc)
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:04:52 +0000 (UTC) horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >
| > Sorry folks, guess I'm a bit behind the times and kinda old school. I
| > do
|
| No, you are not -- you just got hammered by a bunch of elitist
| techno-snobs who missed the actual point: menuetos
| (http://www.menuetos.org) is the ultimate anti-bloatware. A GUI, editor,
| games, assembler to add your own application, templates for half a dozen
| languages, plus more on just 1.4 MB (i tried it over a year ago so I
| forgot the additional stuff on it).
|
| Next time you may wanna say it fits on a 1.4 MB CD and you'll get much
| better press (I guess, I now have to study the procmail thread so I know
| how to handle all the subsequent hate mail :-)
|
| Off the subject, I still use floppies to write experimental LILOs to when
| I don't feel like tempering with a working machine, and to carry my
| phone/addressbook when I visit friends in Idaho with their '486 w/o modem,
| plus a few other things in between --but as said that's off the subject.
|
| - Horst
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