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Are we in an (hobby) OS renaissance? I feel like more and more of these amazing projects are popping up.
by juice_bus 5y ago
Are we in an (hobby) OS renaissance? I feel like more and more of these amazing projects are popping up.
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoMaybe! It's not like the compilers, documentation, and emulators needed to launch a hobby OS are getting any harder or more expensive!
- Fnoord 5y agoIts a sign of all times. QNX, V2OS [1] (written in x86 assembly), SkyOS to name a few. I mention QNX because I remember running it from a floppy in end of 90s. Unix system with GUI, from one 1"44 floppy. In the 00s, the website OSnews often covered all kind of alternative OSes (how I came across SkyOS). Which recent ones are you aware of? [1] https://github.com/joostfaassen/v2os https://github.com/joostfaassen/v2os
- pjmlp 5y agoQNX was never an hobby OS, and that floppy (which I also have somewhere), was mostly to demo it to prospective buyers than anything else. Nowadays it is chosen OS used by NVidia for their autonomous vehicles (Linux is for development mostly).
- monax 5y agoCOVID gave us a lot of free time to spend on personal projects