Walking Through SkyOS 5.0 Beta

Hexydes writes "TechIMO has published the first preview of the next-generation SkyOS platform. The article includes a first-look at what users can expect in the next version of SkyOS, a review of how development has progressed from previous versions, and many screenshots." SkyOS is a free operating system for x86 systems; it looks very polished for being "mainly (99.9%) a one man project."

Ob. Joke

[sohp]

Please tell me that that IP stack on this thing is not called SkyNET.

Re:Ob. Joke

[ooby]

Silly, it doesn't use IP. It runs on a neural network. It's a learning OS.

Re:Ob. Joke

[Samus]

SkyNet won't come around until .NET is ported to SkyOS. Then we all have to worry as the 5 machines that are running this os try to take over the world. Or something like that.

Hardware

[sonoluminescence]

The minimum requirments are a pentium and 32MB of RAM.... And from the load time of the web page I think that web server is running on a that exact hardware.

Summary of posts, present and future

[haggar]

30% will say "Who needs another OS when we have Linux."
25% will say "Why another OS project? He should rather concentrate on MySQL/fishing/stamp collection"
25% will say "So what, it's his damn time, he can do what the pleases."
25% will say "HA! You can't even do math! 30+25+25+25 != 100"

Re:Summary of posts, present and future

[p4ul13]

25% will say "HA! You can't even do math! 30+25+25+25 != 100"

Some might say that, but I'll simply thank you for giving %105 to us, the slashdot community.

Thanks Haggar, you're an example to us all.

w000t!

[Anonymous Coward]

DOUBLE SLASHDOTTING!!!

Yes thats correct, we have successfully slashdotted two different sites in the same article! Keep up the good work and let's try for a triple slashdotting!!

Yes Hobby OS

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

Reminds me of another "hobby OS" I ran into circa 1991 also developed by a single person. What was his name ..Linuz something. Ah yes Linuz Torousveld. Wonder what happened with that OS?

At least

[Gothmolly]

it wasn't reviewed on OSNews. Had it been, there would have been snide comments on package management, anti-aliased screen fonts, and the color scheme used for the 'Recycle Bin' icon. And Eugenia would have tried to build a custom version of GAIM, and failing dependencies would have caused another tantrum.

Re:Windows syndrome.

[JDBrechtel]

It's probably because everyone doesn't bend to your will.

You don't rule the world you know?

And You Didn't Even Mention

[CrankyFool]

SkyOS's biggest benefit -- from what I hear, multiple SkyOS boxes across the nation could actually network together and form a pseudo-intelligent network-driven parallel processing system that could be used for scientific calculation, SETI, or even potentially combatting a very serious virus outbreak, if one was to occur. AND, because it'd be completely distributed, it'd be very hard to take it out with an attack on any of its nodes.

Surely such an idea has tremendous merit!

Re:Ob. Joke

[PD]

Informative?

We're not going to make it, are we?

Re:Mirrors coming soon!

[PD]

Bandwidth supply. I'm starting a band that does updated covers of sappy 80's love songs, and I've been looking for a name. That's perfect, thanks!

Re:/. effect

[Anonymous Coward]

/. uses Windows Server 2003

Re:At least

[omega9]

This is not FUNNY, it's TRUE.

Re:Mirrors coming soon!

[Dun Malg]

Ok, here is one mirror, though I don't know about the bandwidth supply on it, so be careful:

Careful? As in "don't click the link too hard"? "Don't let your browser load the page too fast"? A teeming collective mass of idiots* (slashdot) is incapable of being careful.

* I know we're not all idiots individually. en masse we are the equivalent of one very large, distributed idiot.

Re:For something small..

[RobinH]

Yes, but a man that wrote a whole OS by himself must have serious trouble working in a team.

So maybe its not such a good idea hiring him :)

Actually, if you hire this guy, you can fire the team.

Re:Ob. Joke

[laird]

"Please tell me that that IP stack on this thing is not called SkyNET. nah, it's called SkyLAB." When the network crashes, the network really crashes [wired.com]!

A quote of interest from the article...

[Xaroth]

"Installing SkyOS seems painless enough, assuming you already have experience with Linux or another Unix-type platform."

Heck... having your teeth pulled without anesthesia seems painless enough, assuming you already have experience with Linux or another Unix-type platform.

Oh, wait. This is a pro-*nix forum.

How 'bout:
"Having your teeth pulled without anestheisia seems painless enough, assuming you already have experience with or another -type platform."