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Re: The Temple Operating System

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S4M wrote: post #28
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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Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by dschulz »

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…

> possibly with some kind of mental illness

Oh, that explains very well what I was thinking about those bible cites..

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by thu »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #22
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.

Isolation is not just about networking.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by Fargren »

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.

About Machievelli: The Prince was (proably) a sarcastic piece[0], denoting the things he saw politicians doing and he thought should not be done. It's a shame that he's remembered as though it was an instruction manual.

[0]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_Th...

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by nemof »

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.

Please be a bit more respectful of peoples mental health issues.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by S4M »

sounds wrote: post #48
S4M wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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.

Here are some links for when you have a few minutes: What does your OS look like? Screen shots http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12087 Wiki list of projects http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects I don't meant to only report on the ones at osdev.org, but from the osdev.org wiki you can find the other main osdev sites and find their project lists. If you approach this with the attitude of open exploration, I think yo…

thanks!

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by integraton »

The basic idea behind this, as I understand it, is that the author views the operating system as a way to interact with God.

See the following thread of comments on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aqdxn/temple_o...

This is essentially the equivalent of "outsider art" in the technology world.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

integraton wrote: post #57

The basic idea behind this, as I understand it, is that the author views the operating system as a way to interact with God. See the following thread of comments on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aqdxn/temple_o... This is essentially the equivalent of "outsider art" in the technology world.

Indeed. He has the bizarre belief that his computer's PRNG is actually the holy spirit.
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