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FenOS to support all binary formats and hardware

14 points by danfru 13y ago

nemasu 13y ago
Interesting. Wine and ... Darling?
nkozyra 13y ago
Know nothing about this but among other concerns this feels really vaporwarey. Did I miss something?
grageth 13y ago
I REALLY want to believe this isn't vaporware.
- grageth 13y ago
  Expanding on this. If target release is September 2014. I can't see how there is not functional prototypes that could be released for people paying. Considering the target market, why not release it. I'd be willing to pay for the early access. Not so sure I'd pay for a pre-order.
unexistance 13y ago
Android not covered?
noonespecial 13y ago
The binaries are kind of the easy part. Will it work with my laptop's #$^@ wifi card? That's the hard part.
mschuster91 13y ago
Well, cross-platform compatibility is one thing - but cross-hardware compatibility? > Technically, FenOS is an Exo Core Intelligent Operating System that runs on any common Hardware architecture such as “x86”, ”x86-64”, “POWER-PC” and “ARM dafuq? x86/-64 are common enough, but how will they run 64-bit apps on a 32-bit system without a shitload of translation? Same for PPC (who uses this arch anymore) and ARM (x64)? I'm really interested in how they're planning to solve this challenge. Just look at ReactOS and how incomplete it is after years and years of development...
checker659 13y ago
There only seems to be one person working on the OS.
sanxiyn 13y ago
Apparently this is a YouTube video demonstrating FenOS and the author(?) is replying to comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookZ59I9EyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookZ59I9EyY
- bratao 13y ago
  The Windows application have orange borders, very similar to VMWare Unity mode.
austinz 13y ago
The term "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" sounds like meaningless marketing babble. I would have liked to believe otherwise, but there is no substantial technical information that I can find on that website. If anyone can explain what the author means, I'd appreciate it. In terms of OS security, an integrated anti-virus package and a claim that no "external protection software" is needed to make the OS secure don't exactly inspire confidence.
canweriotnow 13y ago
I love that Solaris is such an essential target... Oh, how I miss you, Sun...
- ewbuoi 13y ago
  My school still has an old SPARC machine running Solaris 5.x that all of the CS students have accounts on. They even have gnome installed and X11 forwarding enabled, but I'm not sure why...
michaelmior 13y ago
"all binary formats out there" is a bit of a sensationalist title and doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere on the site.
Danieru 13y ago
This is very suspicious and if I had to make a bet, I'd say it is a scam. First "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" is marketing BS. Which would be fine except they claim to be architecture agnostic which if true requires expensive cpu emulation. This is a warning flag, a real OS would warn about the massive downsides. The big flag is they are taking "pre-orders" and are taking money only through Skrill. Skrill is the new name for moneybrokers, one of the only methods for unreversable money transfers. The only thing more suspicious would be BTC only payments.
ewbuoi 13y ago
Even if it is real, I can't imagine them implementing that many APIs correctly. They also don't mention anything about OS versions, and I don't know why anyone would bother reimplementing some of those ancient APIs.

14 points by danfru 13y ago

nemasu 13y ago

Interesting. Wine and ... Darling?

nkozyra 13y ago

Know nothing about this but among other concerns this feels really vaporwarey. Did I miss something?

grageth 13y ago

I REALLY want to believe this isn't vaporware.

grageth 13y ago
Expanding on this. If target release is September 2014. I can't see how there is not functional prototypes that could be released for people paying. Considering the target market, why not release it. I'd be willing to pay for the early access. Not so sure I'd pay for a pre-order.

unexistance 13y ago

Android not covered?

noonespecial 13y ago

The binaries are kind of the easy part. Will it work with my laptop's #$^@ wifi card? That's the hard part.

mschuster91 13y ago

Well, cross-platform compatibility is one thing - but cross-hardware compatibility? > Technically, FenOS is an Exo Core Intelligent Operating System that runs on any common Hardware architecture such as “x86”, ”x86-64”, “POWER-PC” and “ARM dafuq? x86/-64 are common enough, but how will they run 64-bit apps on a 32-bit system without a shitload of translation? Same for PPC (who uses this arch anymore) and ARM (x64)? I'm really interested in how they're planning to solve this challenge. Just look at ReactOS and how incomplete it is after years and years of development...

checker659 13y ago

There only seems to be one person working on the OS.

sanxiyn 13y ago

Apparently this is a YouTube video demonstrating FenOS and the author(?) is replying to comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookZ59I9EyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookZ59I9EyY

bratao 13y ago
The Windows application have orange borders, very similar to VMWare Unity mode.

austinz 13y ago

The term "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" sounds like meaningless marketing babble. I would have liked to believe otherwise, but there is no substantial technical information that I can find on that website. If anyone can explain what the author means, I'd appreciate it. In terms of OS security, an integrated anti-virus package and a claim that no "external protection software" is needed to make the OS secure don't exactly inspire confidence.

canweriotnow 13y ago

I love that Solaris is such an essential target... Oh, how I miss you, Sun...

ewbuoi 13y ago
My school still has an old SPARC machine running Solaris 5.x that all of the CS students have accounts on. They even have gnome installed and X11 forwarding enabled, but I'm not sure why...

michaelmior 13y ago

"all binary formats out there" is a bit of a sensationalist title and doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere on the site.

Danieru 13y ago

This is very suspicious and if I had to make a bet, I'd say it is a scam. First "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" is marketing BS. Which would be fine except they claim to be architecture agnostic which if true requires expensive cpu emulation. This is a warning flag, a real OS would warn about the massive downsides. The big flag is they are taking "pre-orders" and are taking money only through Skrill. Skrill is the new name for moneybrokers, one of the only methods for unreversable money transfers. The only thing more suspicious would be BTC only payments.

ewbuoi 13y ago

Even if it is real, I can't imagine them implementing that many APIs correctly. They also don't mention anything about OS versions, and I don't know why anyone would bother reimplementing some of those ancient APIs.