Graphical Operating Systems

[The Beatles]

http://students.washington.edu/jbarbero/SOF/gui/

They are in order of my preference. Brief instructions: download and unzip the zip file, insert a blank floppy, and follow the instruction for yout platform. Linux users will have dd anyway, and windows users can use rawrite. Hint to the latter: Open up a MS-DOS prompt, go to the directory in which you unpacked it, and type the rawrite command on the web site.
Also, I recommend you to browse the web sites of the first few.

[Devari]

Kewl. I'm going to try one of those.

How many of them are OSS?

[The Beatles]

Hello my little Stallman. :*laughs*:

MenuetOS -- Free as in Speech (if you know assembler)
QNX -- Free as in Beer (but not as in speech, so no drunken speeches)
XWOAF -- Free as in Speech (and free to make prettier)
Visopsys -- Free as in Speech (free to fork and change the acronym)
SolarOS -- Free as in Speech (if you learn its speech, which is assembler)
AROS -- Free as in Speech (and free to study the license)

[bjornredtail]

Neat... Weird bootable stuff. *d/ls*

[The Beatles]

Mind you, they don't work in Qemu. The ones that do work only work with the lowest graphics mode enabled.

[windhound]

shame I dont have a floppy drive anymore...

looks spiffy though

[Devari]

No floppy drive?

Infidel!

MenuetOS is REALLY spiffy. Played around with it last night...

Does it have a DHCP client? I didn't really have the time to look for one.

[The Beatles]

Indeed, infidel. Floppies are the preferred way to move data around between households in Hungary, because /everyone/ has one, and few people have CD-burners, although *most* have CD-readers. Oh yeah, what's a DVD again?

Well, it has a stack. I don't see why you shouldn't just manually write a DHCP client for it. Just kidding, ask around on their forums, although somehow I doubt they have something like that around. I could be wrong though. It's rather nifty.

Visopsys doesn't load the floppy into RAM, you know, just mounts it. So you can save settings and stuff. Some of the others can too, but more as an afterthought. Of course, Visopsys thus runs slower.

All of them have pretty cool GUIs, although SolarOS and AROS aren't much more... And AROS is rather ugly.

I haven't actually gotten any of them connected to the Internet, but then I didn't try that hard. It would probably be trivial to make XWOAF connect. I built a variant with a different kernel and some modules somewhere...


[edit] p.s. Have you tried the MenuetOS screensaver? It's the coolest app...

[windhound]

my laptop says its too cool for floppies
and I'm too cheap to buy a 50 dollar external drive

XFLD works fine for me
built in support for my wireless card is spiffy

[Nohc]

*doesn't mess with any of that stuff*

[windhound]

http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/index.html

Would you like it in a house?
Would you like it with a mouse?

I do not like it in a house.
I do not like it with a mouse.
I do not like it here or there.
I do not like it anywhere.
I do not like unix or linux.
I do not like it, AntiWindows-I-am.

You do not like it.
So you say.
Try it! Try it!
And you may.
Try it and you may, I say.

AntiWindows!
If you will let me be, I will try it.
You will see.

<cd is plopped into drive, linux is loaded>

Say!
I like unlx and linux!
I do! I like it, AntiWindows-I-am!
And I will use it in a house.
And I will use it with a mouse.
And I will use it here and there.
Say! I will use it ANYWHERE!

[The Beatles]

BRILLIANT! Did you make that up? That's just amazing!

[windhound]

Green Eggs and Ham, by Doc. Seuss

pulled up the 'lyrics' at http://www.totse.com/en/ego/cult_of_the ... dc020.html

slightly modded ofcourse, not everything goes quite as well, but I'm lazy and low on time.. the opportunity to use Green Eggs and Ham was unmissable though, esp. w/ the refrence to a mouse