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I guess someone at the asylum gave all the night guards sleeping pills, or else I don't know how this guy got out.

Are you writing this OS from the ground up? Or is it built ontop of someone elses kernel (windows/linux/etc). If you are building it from the ground up, why do you need anti-spyware and anti-virus applications? I highly doubt there would be anything out there attacking it.

If you are building ontop of someone elses kernel, well that's not really making a new OS at all, it's just slapping a GUI on one. (For example, KDE and Gnome are NOT operating systems, they are desktop environments which is available for many different OSes).

Either way, good luck. I'd like to see some screen shots sometime soon.

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/posts here for soon to be extreme lulz.

No one will crush Microsoft and no one will crush you and your OS. Crushing Microsoft is not just about building a better OS than Windows. Microsoft produce a lot of software besides Windows and they are also an internet company.

P.S I'm not a Microsoft fan and I'm not using Windows.

it's already that time of year again?

mastermind666 wrote:LOL i could give a crap if i dont get any results on this page, me and my team have posted many messages on many boards and gotten alot of positive feedback, as for the viruses, yes we created some of our own, but would never release them. HA GOODNIGHT ALL MS FANS

I don't even know how to respond to that. But I think I know a smiley just for the job.

A few more can help us to sum things up:

LOL i could give a crap if i dont get any results on this page, me and my team have posted many messages on many boards and gotten alot of positive feedback, as for the viruses, yes we created some of our own, but would never release them. HA GOODNIGHT ALL MS FANS

Well.... I'll.... ... respond..... too.. ... .... with .... ... ... a ... smiley... .... ... No sh!t MS, you've got another rival company.

First rule's about OS Dev
1. No one will join your project.

I disagree there Dex. Three people have joined my project, along with a further five who applied but who I chose not to accept (already had enough developers for the initial stages!), and my brief wasn't particularly revolutionary.

First rule's about OS Dev
1. No one will join your project.

i always thought the 1st rule about OS Dev
was
1. we dont talk about OS Dev
and the 2nd was
2. we dont talk about OS Dev

JamesM wrote:

First rule's about OS Dev
1. No one will join your project.

I disagree there Dex. Three people have joined my project, along with a further five who applied but who I chose not to accept (already had enough developers for the initial stages!), and my brief wasn't particularly revolutionary.

I was refering to the person that started this topic, not all OS projects, there are many cases where you will be joined by other coder's (including my own OS).
But if you just write a list of imposable tasks and then ask coder's to join, then you will get none, unless they also have no idea about how to coding a OS.

Imagine the desktop PC market as being a 1km x 1km x 1km pool of water. Some of us may be huge ocean liners (Microsoft and Apple), some of us may be sharks (Linux, BSD), but most of us are just ants. We can splash around as much as we want (even drink to our heart's content), but we're not going to make a very big ripple (if any) in the pool, and at most it'll only be felt by a few of our fellow ants around us.

Even if you had 5 ants, or 10 ants, splashing around this pool, it's not going to be enough to capsize the ocean liners, and I doubt they'd even notice you or adjust their direction.

Perhaps with a lot of money and time, a lot of talented ants could progress their way in to a shark, but the ripples they'll make in the market still is no comparison to the huge ocean liners, which will drive straight through you.