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Enso OS: A simple operating system for everyone, able run on any machine

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Re: Enso OS: A simple operating system for everyone, able run on any machine

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Post by microcolonel »

This is a superficial GTK+ reskin with a derivative window manager and an icon pack. This is not an operating system, and it's not particularly helpful if what you're showing is the special sauce. If you have some ingenious installer which reduces the complications on that end for people, that'd be cool, but that doesn't seem to be what this is.

Re: Enso OS: A simple operating system for everyone, able run on any machine

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Post by pjmlp »

Annatar wrote: post #6
maxharris wrote: post #2

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Since Solaris and the BSD's, nay, since AT&T's UNIX®️ back in the '70's. Linux was the first to just ship the kernel without the userland.

And me thinking that there were already OSes being done in high level languages in 1961.

Re: Enso OS: A simple operating system for everyone, able run on any machine

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Post by netsharc »

microcolonel wrote: post #5

This is a superficial GTK+ reskin with a derivative window manager and an icon pack. This is not an operating system, and it's not particularly helpful if what you're showing is the special sauce. If you have some ingenious installer which reduces the complications on that end for people, that'd be cool, but that doesn't seem to be what this is.

Yeah, I don't get what his "team" of 1 dude's motivation is. The top line is about the environment too, with nothing concrete about how this OS is supposedly better for the world. What is this, are Instagram hipster influencers making Linux skins now?
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