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Define "nearly", as it's key word here. Also, what is "Grammer"?

@Sandras: That is exactly what I use =) dwm that is.

m12 wrote:I WILL get an OS that can run {nearly} anything, and then you can laugh all you want - At the mountains on your foreheads for not wanting to progress.

To accomplish that you would need to program at the same speed as all OSX, Linux and Windows developers. At the same time. That's probably thousands of people constantly making progress, adding new features and APIs.

Even if you set goals like OSX 10, Windows XP and Linux kernel 2.6 compatibility (not including anything made after those versions). It would take a 50 man team something like 3-5 years of overtime to get close to beta.

You, alone, on your spare time? You'd need to be superman to catch up. I'm not saying it's impossible, but just the planning could take a year. Full time development wouldn't be below 10 years. Now, just think about this one more time before saying anything.

If you had somewhat of a more realistic plan people might take it more seriously. Like a full OSX clone to start with, and getting a hype going about that, recruiting people like crazy. Then later (in 5 years or more) when it's starting to become useful - you could mash whatever code you can from that, Linux and ReactOS together to get towards your ultimate dream OS running almost anything. But it would still need at least 10 years. Probably a lot more.

m12 wrote:I WILL get an OS that can run {nearly} anything, and then you can laugh all you want - At the mountains on your foreheads for not wanting to progress.

Do you really expect us to say, "good idea, go ahead"?

I would not challenge the feasibility of such goal, however if anyone need to run applications from multiple OSes, hypervisor solutions like vmware, parallels, crossover etc is a more accepted way for consumer. For consumer he pay a license to Windows is not much different from paying license for your OS, or even more acceptable even windows may be more expensive.

m12 wrote:I WILL get an OS that can run {nearly} anything, and then you can laugh all you want - At the mountains on your foreheads for not wanting to progress.

Start working on it now. Post your results in two weeks. I look forward to seeing them.

m12 wrote:I WILL get an OS that can run {nearly} anything, and then you can laugh all you want - At the mountains on your foreheads for not wanting to progress.

Either you're:



or you're just incredibly ignorant. In either case, you fail.

m12 wrote:I WILL get an OS that can run {nearly} anything, and then you can laugh all you want - At the mountains on your foreheads for not wanting to progress.

The closest I get is running Linux instead of VirtualBox in seamless mode at work everyday. Virtual machines are nice for many things. For example, sometimes I need to run a local specific versions of Oracle database, SQL server, Visual Studio, Apache, GCC, JDK, etc. I don't want to have 5 versions of each program installed on my host OS - each insisting they have their own background services running and bloating down my computer. I only need 1 most at a time, and virtual machines give me an easy way to install each thing under the perfect OS it's designed for, knowing it's not bloating my host OS because once I turn the VM off it's off for good - no mystery bloat!

m12 wrote:I WILL get an OS...

Judging from your track record so far (i.e., struggling to initialize registers before using them in your bootsector, general level of technical communication, English skills etc.), excuse me when I don't hold my breath for it.

Sandras wrote:I do find interface like this much more appealing than all those glass, water, plasma UI's.

I agree. I am currently not running X (though I still have it installed for qemu). I use linux virtual consoles (currently I have tty1: links -g tty2: irssi tty3: screen running mplayer playing music, ed and ash tty4: hammer and sicle ascii art, date, free, uptime, who and df tty5: top) and I only start X when I use qemu. It makes my computer much more responsive and gives me over two times more free RAM compared to when I X was running all the time.