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This is good stuff. Thanks for this. It might just push me to dust off some of the x86 asm I learned back in the day.
Can anybody name more then 10 great desktop applications for MikeOS, and ONLY MikeOS. I bet not. That’s the real reason MikeOS is still playing catch up with the big guys.
I’ve tried installing MikeOS on my grandmothers computer but no mather the claims it is simpy not ready for prime time.
Getting her Wacom-tablet to support all buttons was a nightmare, you’d imagine they’d have a nice GUI for such a basic task, it’s only 2011. We’re not all computer geniuses.
No, there’s still hell alot of work to be done before MikeOS is ready for Joe User. I don’t want to be overly negative here but until then, MikeOS will only be suited for enthusiasts.
EDIT: I Don’t know why I posted this
Edited 2011-09-30 22:40 UTC
Just wait for MikeOS Ultimate Professional Edition! That will solve all your problems.
I heard all they did on that version was bolted on a HTML shell and added a smiley to the kernel panic message.
I don’t thing being ready for Joe User is a goal of MikeOS. It defines itself as a teaching project…
(Irony-proof, me ? Noooo…)
Edited 2011-10-01 08:35 UTC
Seriously dude. No one cares. it’s open source. People can code whatever the heck they want. There is no guarantee is will be useful.
I was making sarcasm of the fact that people always assume that something isn’t ready or useful before Joe User can use it. I do not hold this view myself. I like to toy with the OS myself and am working and something similar for ARM.
Nobody can hold it against you that you missed the sarcasm though, there really are people thinking like that. A person I showed Xmonad to said that they should get rid of the tiling windows, get rid of the Haskell configuration in favour of a gui and add a taskbar. If not, Xmonad would never appeal to the average user and was doomed to stay a niche project.
My explanation of target audiences went totally passed him.
Edited 2011-10-02 12:33 UTC
Hussam I dont know why they voted you down. I agree
In the second sentence of the article Mike states this is a teaching project.
Why hobby OS coders on OSAlert should have to justify and defend there projects lately to the some abrasive OSAlert commentors is just sad.
Edited 2011-10-02 19:34 UTC
I guess he was modded down because he (and you) didn’t realise it was a joke referring to another article about Linux. A bit unfair on you two, I know, as English isn’t your first language and often posters forget that not every reader is fluent in English.
For what it’s worth, I thought it was really funny
my bad
Raccoon…City….Umbrella corp…experiments….insanity…….
2012 is the year of the MikeOS Desktop!
I think MikeOS also has the coolest name for an OS.
It’s all about branding anyway.
Well, Linus Torvalds started the trend of name one’s creation after himself, so Mike did the same thing.
Stallman said “I am not the one who names my creation as Stallmanix” – critizing Linus.
Except that Linus did not choose linux as the project name, but it was one of his friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_name
Do you really believe that story?
If I had created something, then it is my creation, and I name it. Not someone else. As we have seen, Linus bosses around with people and he is in charge, insulting people if he dont like what they do, scaring off developers. Do you really believe that such a person with such an ego would let someone else name his creation – or is it more plausible that he named his creation after himself? What is more probable?
1) Person with huge ego names it after himself
2) Person with huge ego let other persons decide over his creation.
I think Stallman once named a kernel after some lass he fancied though — Alix or something.
Anyway, looking back I should’ve changed the name at version 1.0, before other people started getting involved. It does sound horribly egotistical now. Sorry everyone
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That’s an awesome idea.
I’m dating a girl called Alison, I’m sure she’ll be impressed if I named a kernel after her.
I just need to explain what a kernel is first….and operating system too. But once I’ve given her a brief course in computing, I’m sure I’ll get laid
Debian was named partly like that, apparently also after Debra Lynn ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock ); in this case, it clearly worked in regards to slight “immortalizing” and such (I’m mentioning her after all)
Didn’t seem work very well when it comes to long term relationship, but if you’re after getting laid…
And damn, with my local world for “kernel” it could be …awkward. It is essentially the same word as the one used for “testicle” (also other meanings, “nucleus” or “core” for example, but still)
I don’t see anything egotistical by using your name.
It’s just name. Why not be yours the creator of it.
Even more, our names are most of the time utterly random; not that big of a deal, generally (unless one changes it to some preferable and/or peculiar one)
Saint IGNUcious probably said that in jest I hope.