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Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

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Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

#11

Post by no_protocol »

I ran `cloc` on the minoca/os repository, here are the results:

  github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.70  T=22.43 s (84.3 files/s, 63498.9 lines/s)
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Language                         files          blank        comment           code
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  C                                 1023         296251         262652         530443
  C/C++ Header                       438          93833         117592          69529
  Assembly                            95           9588           7773          13383
  make                               270           2236           6402           4784
  Bourne Shell                        38            799           1198           2787
  JSON                                 4              4              0           1367
  Pascal                               4            232             28            718
  Python                               4            194            257            589
  yacc                                 2             99              4            481
  awk                                  3             25             11            263
  Markdown                             3             27              0            172
  Windows Resource File                3             18              0             86
  lex                                  2             44            142             84
  Perl                                 1              7             10             35
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  SUM:                              1890         403357         396069         624721
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

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Post by no_protocol »

CalChris wrote: post #7

Oh please. You have to start somewhere and this is where they're starting. By comparison, Linus' first announcement was: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resemble…

Minoca was previously posted about 6 months ago [0], but it was not open source at the time.

I guess this is kind of like a re-release after not generating much buzz and seeing a lot of comments asking for open source.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662057

Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

#15

Post by StavrosK »

CalChris wrote: post #7

Oh please. You have to start somewhere and this is where they're starting. By comparison, Linus' first announcement was: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resemble…

I'll second this. I'm sure the same comments here could be made about Linux when it started, and I don't see any point in negativity.

Good luck to these people, I hope this becomes one of the major OSes in ten years.

Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

#16

Post by agildehaus »

formula1 wrote: post #9
Zikes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because you're not the target demographic doesn't mean the demographic doesn't exist.

Their competition is dsl, arch, raspbarrien and other small/IoT OSs. Not to say their product is worse. But why are they forking instead of supporting existing technologies? Not saying their work isnt useful. But theres an argument to be made for "why"?

Because they can. There's your why.

Now you get to answer the "why not?".

Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

#17

Post by kobeya »

CalChris wrote: post #7

Oh please. You have to start somewhere and this is where they're starting. By comparison, Linus' first announcement was: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resemble…

Thanks for injecting some sanity :)

Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

#18

Post by Zikes »

agildehaus wrote: post #16
formula1 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their competition is dsl, arch, raspbarrien and other small/IoT OSs. Not to say their product is worse. But why are they forking instead of supporting existing technologies? Not saying their work isnt useful. But theres an argument to be made for "why"?

Because they can. There's your why. Now you get to answer the "why not?".

Also, as they put it themselves:

> We wanted to see if with 25 years of hindsight and a clean slate we could create something interesting and unique in the operating systems space.

Re: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

#19

Post by dschuetz »

Ah, yes, as if Linux is not enough as a community driven OS. Let's make other one! Where anyone can make crappy software and be offended if someone pointed it out!

I appreciate the idea of making a difference (I badly want to have and use an unproblematic OS), but making an OS out of the lack of another major alternatives is just... a waste of time!

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