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The Temple Operating System

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Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by noir_lord »

meowface wrote: post #9
orclev wrote: post #3

I don't even... is this some kind of joke? The website reads like a Christian version of the timecube website.

The author has some mental issues of some kind. He is a great programmer, though, and his work shouldn't be discounted just because he's a bit off.

A bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative.

LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

eck wrote: post #20

I know the author is a long-hellbanned hn user, possibly with some kind of mental illness. But just out of curiosity, I downloaded the 24MB ISO from the website and loaded it up in a VMWare instance. It does boot... It's an odd curses-like interface, with lots of blinking and scrolling. There are command-line looking things around, but all of the commands are kind of like C statements, like instead of 'cd ..' you hav…

Play with it if you have VMWare and you're bored, but I'd strongly recommend fully isolating it...

He's said that networking isn't a goal of the project, as the OS is intended for gaming. So it doesn't have any way to connect to any network.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by mkr-hn »

noir_lord wrote: post #21
meowface wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author has some mental issues of some kind. He is a great programmer, though, and his work shouldn't be discounted just because he's a bit off.

A bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative. LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.

I often start thinking the same of people on HN, but I still listen for those occasions when they say something interesting.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

noir_lord wrote: post #21
meowface wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author has some mental issues of some kind. He is a great programmer, though, and his work shouldn't be discounted just because he's a bit off.

A bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative. LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.

It's interesting that he's done more actual work than most of us. I would imagine he spends most of his time working on the OS rather than interacting with people. Kind of puts into perspective how productive we could be... And also how useless some forms of productivity are.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by S4M »

devindotcom wrote: post #8

I really want to have a spare laptop on which I can install all kinds of weirdo OSes just to see what they're like, not for "real" use. I'm perfectly happy running Win7 and OSX but that's like being happy with vanilla and chocolate at Baskin Robbins! I need some kind of heavy-duty bootloader and partitioning agent, though. Any recommendations for a starting place?

>> I really want to have a spare laptop on which I can install all kinds of weirdo OSes just to see what they're like

Actually, is there somewhere a list of all the weirdo OSes? I'd be interested to see that.

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