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Hi.

Anybody looked at or tried this out?

http://www.skyos.org

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SkyOS is a free operating system written from scratch for x86 PC's. As required for a modern operating system it supports features like multiprocessor support (SMP), virtual memory, memory protection, multitasking and threading etc. Additionally SkyOS has a built-in GUI system named SkyGI.
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<quote>
We are pleased to announce that we have chosen a new file system to use in SkyOS, and it will be available in SkyOS 5.0. The file system that we have chosen to use is the OpenBFS, made available under the MIT license by the OpenBeOS project
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I'm all for new and or multiple OS, but wonder about drivers
for it. They're at release 5.0 allready - not so "new" anymore.

Seems as if they wrote the OS to make use of all those "old"
pre-586 machines out there with about 32MB of memory.

Reckon I'll wait a while and see how it turns out, grow etc.
and then get hold of a copy.

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Hmmm - this seems a bit of a bummer -
found it on the download site .
"Note: Please delete any previous installed SkyOS versions before booting" .. from the cd.
A bit useless then without a proper backup or (re)install
of current running systems??
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sounds a bit rough and ready, but so long as it's Free, then bring it on.

it's not linux though is it?

I haven't downloaded it but from what I can tell, it doesn't look Free to me (no source code that I could find).