Wonderful little freeware OS... - by Haegan
Haegan on 22/6/2006 at 17:53
Well, maybe 'Wonderful' is too strong a word, BUT, it was interesting enough to make it onto my hard drive. (I booted it from the disk before performing the neccessary partitioning of the tangled lump I call 'E:/')
download it <a href=http://minix3.org>here</a>
It's called 'Minix' and I thought it was a nice cosy little OS, that I might get round to using at some unspecified point in the future...
Bulgarian_Taffer on 22/6/2006 at 18:39
(
http://www.menuetos.net/)
- Pre-emptive multitasking
- Responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1280x1024, 16 million colours
- IDE: Editor/Macro Assembler for applications
- TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers
- Network applications include ftp/http/mp3 servers
- Free-form application windows
- Hard real-time data fetch
- Fits on a single floppyhenke on 22/6/2006 at 18:42
Looks very usable...
...FOR POOR CHILDREN IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES HAHAHAHA
Malygris on 22/6/2006 at 18:50
Finnish cruelty is the very very worst kind of cruelty.
ignatios on 22/6/2006 at 19:24
Mostly because what the fuck are those people SAYING
TheGreatGodPan on 22/6/2006 at 22:35
Quote Posted by Malygris
Finnish cruelty is the very very worst kind of cruelty.
Andrew Tanenbaum is from the Netherlands.
Briareos H on 23/6/2006 at 00:44
* If you find it wonderful, you may be interested in Tanenbaum's books such as Modern Operating Systems (before going to more advanced stuff). Minix was developed by him as a teaching tool and still remains so to this day (also, linux was developed on and based on Minix).
* While MenuetOS seems amazing at first, the fact that it's 100% x86 assembly makes it more of a masturbatory game than a real Operating System. Still, it could have interesting applications.
SD on 23/6/2006 at 16:04
Quote Posted by TheGreatGodPan
Andrew Tanenbaum is from the Netherlands.
Re-read Malygris' post. Check henke's location. Repeat until you get the joke.
Haegan on 23/6/2006 at 16:20
Just out of interest, what opperating systems do people prefer to use here? My (current) favorite is Linspire. (formerly 'Lindows' Before Microsoft extended their iron fist.) In fact, most forms of Linux are OK, (apart from 'Red Hat' YUK!)
Shug on 23/6/2006 at 18:37
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
Re-read Malygris' post. Check henke's location. Repeat until you get the joke.
I actually felt that he got the joke and was trying to 'add' to it, but I COULD be hideously incorrect
