On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, bren tamilio wrote:
> hmm. did anyone else see this?
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/11908.html
>
> Does anyone know more about JOS? How can it run without a kernel, and what
> are they using for a base filesystem? If it is "Java", wouldn't it have to
> be based on a minix-like filesystem (vis a vis Linux)? I know this is a
> little off-topic, so I welcome replies to me and not the list of you deem
> appropriate.
>
> And what's up with ripping apart linux as a "developer's" OS? The distro
> companies like Yggdrasil, Caldera, Red Hat, Slackware et. al. have made
> exceptional breakthroughs in the last few years to make linux instalation
> on a PC quite painless *and* user friendly. Grr.
Also, I think there's a certain futility in creating a free (in the GNU
sense) operating system, using a proprietary language (Java). Much like the
problems KDE faces, but on a larger scale.
Kirk Rafferty
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