Sunday, July 15, 2007

Cooool!

I just heard about MenuetOS, and it sounds pretty awesome... It's a new OS developed from scratch, written entirely in assembly language! If this thing is functional enough online, it could knock-out Debian as my alternative OS of choice. Not only would it be faster, but it would have the whole 'security through obscurity' thing down pat.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"New OS"?

You should visit osnews.com every once in a while - there are many other systems that have been around for quite some time that you might want to check out. If you like testing operating systems, that's a good place to start to see what's out there. Personally, I'm down with Intel Native Oberon. It had widgets when Macs still had a Chooser and Windows still had the program manager.

Brent said...

Heh, I'm not sure why I typed "new"... I was paraphrasing from the linked website when I was typing that. New to me, I guess, but I knew it'd been around for at least a little while.

Thanks for the link though! I'm really just looking for the lightest and fastest general-use OS that is still reasonably compatible with most modern 'standards'. Basically, if it runs a web browser that can properly render popular web pages, supports a recent version of Flash, and has a decent instant messenger, I'm there. Things like media players and disc-burning are nice bonuses.