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essence
- Essence – An Operating System
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Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence/-/issues/20#note_1504444954
"Thank you. I am not working on it at the moment. But I would like to return to the project when I have more free time ;)"
He's busy with something else.
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Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
"Although the operating system is written in C++, most C++ features are avoided" [1]. I think it's a defensible choice for an OS, especially if you want to lower the bar for contributors.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence/-/blob/master/help/Contribu...
website
- BeOS Demo Video
- Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks for HPC and Desktop
- Saving Linux
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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...
Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.
With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.
- Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs
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Running BeOS 5 in QEMU (i386)
If interested, please take a look at its up-to-date evolution
https://www.haiku-os.org
I tested on real hardware too, and it worked well
- Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
Have you checked out Haiku? It's so delightfully early 2000s.
- Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots
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Geniuses Named this Obtrusive Malware Emulator
Bro you clearly haven't use HaikuOS before.
What are some alternatives?
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
zzzfm
awesome - A curated list of awesome projects
pekwm - pekwm - X11 window manager
Platform - Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform)
jakt - The Jakt Programming Language
v2os - V2_OS - The V2_ Operating System. 100% 32 bit assembly code
gf - A GDB frontend for Linux.
kush-os - the kool useful system helper – a from-scratch hobby OS written in C++20