[PLUG] How many open source OS projects exist?

Pomeroy Lab admin at mindblowingidea.com
Tue Jun 5 02:55:09 UTC 2007


Of course Vector Linux will run with minimal system resources on a 386 and run Firefox fast. It will also run on X86 processors.

Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote: # from someone
# on Monday 04 June 2007 01:10 pm:

>Freedos has the ability to run on old
>equipment stably than even Linux can't run on.  
>In theory, a lite Firefox gui for Freedos can
>bring the hardware requirements to run Firefox
>down.

That would be dosFox or something?

>I suppose 800+ Mhz systems that can run Firefox smoothly
>are so common that noone cares about running it on lower
>spec machines.

How exactly would running firefox on dos be lighter than running it on 
linux?

I wonder how much lighter it would be if they yanked out the 
dos-compatible filesystem abstraction layer (among other things forced 
on them by qdos.)

>Are there any groups trying to build an OS and encourage
>production of hardware for it that is the best of every
>operating system that came before it?  What would the
>best of: Linux, Windows, BSD, MacOS-X, and AmigaOS look
>like?

Well, the best of the best will of course be Hurd.

I have to wonder exactly what Windows^Wqdos has to contribute.

Or MacOS-X for that matter.

Try "adding commercial backing to Linux".  Imagine the impact of 
redirecting the efforts of all of that polishing onto something which 
is inherently less squishy, soft, and brown.

--Eric
-- 
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