Posted on 21-Nov-2001 22:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 16 comments View flat View list |
BoxOS is a brand new open source operating system that is planned to bring together a number of other open source projects to fulfill its ambitious mission statement: "To create and maintain a quality open source operating system that is compatible with all existing WIN32/Unix/Mac/DOS/NT/Amiga/Etc. applications and drivers, plus has the power to suit both developers and beginners."
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Posted by Carlos on 22-Nov-2001 00:24 GMT | "To create and maintain a quality open source operating system that is compatible with all existing WIN32/Unix/Mac/DOS/NT/Amiga/Etc". Just one big ROTFL ;) |
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Posted by redrumloa on 22-Nov-2001 00:48 GMT | With all due respect, what are you smoking? |
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Posted by Hagge on 22-Nov-2001 01:14 GMT | uhmm... i suppose it will change name to bloatos later... |
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Posted by Lennart Fridén on 22-Nov-2001 06:24 GMT | Another funny typo is "That means that the end-user can have access to an operating system that doesn't anything (100% free!),"
Ah well, everyone makes mistakes once in a while...:-) |
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Posted by priest on 22-Nov-2001 06:50 GMT | The site:
"BoxOS will have support to handle WIN32, WIN3.1, NT, UNIX, Linux, Mac and DOS applications and Drivers. "
No Amiga.
Who cares anyway, yet another sucking OS. |
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Posted by Antoine Dubourg on 22-Nov-2001 07:56 GMT | Another EmuBoXoS. Nothing new with that project : they just take spare parts and assemble them into the same place. Nothing impressive or new with that concept. (Linux + Wine + DosEmu + ... + ...)
Nothing new, crapleware. |
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Posted by Dave on 22-Nov-2001 08:23 GMT | Im amazed there are still enough qualified "open source" developers left to devote time to this project. Seems to me the open source movement is boiling the ocean somewhat.
Dave. |
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Posted by EyeAm on 22-Nov-2001 08:36 GMT | "There is no one sure-fire method for success, but there is one sure-fire method for failure: try and please everybody."
Whomever is doing BoxOS (if it's not a hoax) would do well to remember that.
At least my OS has a 64-bit starting line and no legacy anything (except via emulation, if anything) |
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BoxOS : Comment 10 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 22-Nov-2001 10:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (Dave): Please don't lump the "Open Source" movement under one umbrella.
Just because some developers can't see what's worthwhile and
what isn't, doesn't mean we all suffer from such blindness.
This subtle hostility to free software developers is mildly
disturbing. |
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BoxOS : Comment 11 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by EyeAm on 22-Nov-2001 10:54 GMT | Please :) go fuck yourself...
Your overt attempt to flame is not appreciated. |
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BoxOS : Comment 12 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by NoctReX on 22-Nov-2001 11:32 GMT | AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, MacOS, Windows (about 5 versions of it), Linux (with a dozen distrubutions), NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, QNX, BeOS, AtheOS, and so on, and so on, and so on...
Oh, no! no more OSes!!! Don`t we have enough OS`es allready?
Sux!
so we`ll have:
OS "A", which supports Program "X", "Y" but not "Z",
OS "B", which supports Program "Y" ,"Z" but not "X",
OS "C", which supports Program "Z" only,
and so on ....
Developers! why don`t leave the OS`es as they are and instead of making another OS, make another Program, which can support the existing OS`es? |
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BoxOS : Comment 13 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Don Cox on 22-Nov-2001 12:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (NoctReX): What is needed is not another OS, but more hardware drivers and file
import/export filters. |
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BoxOS : Comment 14 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Dave on 22-Nov-2001 14:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 10 (Anonymous): Oh dear another misinterpretation.
There are currently far too many "open source" projects that have been started that will never be finished because there are not enough "open source" developers that are completer finishers to go round. Thats what boiling the ocean means.
Its not a criticism of the open source methodology, just an observation of the current status quo.
Dave. |
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BoxOS : Comment 15 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by priest on 22-Nov-2001 15:38 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (NoctReX): We need something to unify those platforms ... something to seamlessly enable the use of common fileformats, even binaries ... something to unify (/hide/personalize) all those weird/ugly/foreign GUI:s ...
Dare we say ... no, let's leave some room for imagination. |
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BoxOS : Comment 16 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Dave on 23-Nov-2001 12:59 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (priest): "something to unify..." |
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