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Peter Tattam Of The PetrOS Project Talks To OSNews
Eugenia writes: "Trumpet Software is mostly known for their Internet communications software package, Trumpet Winsock, which has been adopted by the Internet world back in 1995, at the times where Windows 3.1 and Win95 did not come as standard with full internet connetion capabilities. But the main product these days for Trumpet Software is PetrOS, a 32-bit Operating System, which has the goal to be compatible by all means (binary and API compatible) with Microsoft Windows. OSNews is interviewing the main architect behind the project, Peter Tattam, who talks in depth about PetrOS, and also there is shown an early screenshot of the PetrOS GUI, which is still under heavy development." And it's been (not surprizingly) under heavy development for a while. Building a Windows-compatible OS from scratch surely isn't easy, but from this interview (including screenshots) they're having quite a go of it.
Don't they realize that they're endangering National Security!?!
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back to uo for me... ugh...
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Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Visit your local library: gatse.ms
For a free pamphlet on talking with your teens about perils of Open Source : gatse.ms/giver.jpg
watch out! those links aren't for the faint-hearted or easily offended! They deal with frank discussion of the issues of the day.
Note the similarity between the Slashdot "article" and the introduction to the linked article.
I think we should be told. If Slashdot is violating fair use doctrine like this it can hardly claim to be moral arbiter for other "fair use" rights.
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: *Windows is dying. You
don't need to be Kreskin to predict *Windows's future. The hand writing
is on the wall: *Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be
any future at all for *Windows because *Windows is dying. Things are looking
very bad for *Windows. As many of us are already aware, *Windows continues
to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Windows XP leader Bill Gatse states that there are 7000 users of Windows XP.
How many users of Windows 2000 are there? Let's see. The number of Windows XP
versus Windows 2000 posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1.
Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Windows 2000 users. Windows ME posts
on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows 2000 posts. Therefore
there are about 700 users of Windows ME. A recent article put Windows 98 at
about 80 percent of the *Windows market. Therefore there are
(7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Windows 98 users. This is consistent with the
number of Windows 98 Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on,
DOS 6.6 went out of business and was taken over by Windows 3.1 who sell another troubled OS.
Now Windows 3.1 is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel
house.
All major surveys show that *Windows has steadily declined in market
share. *Windows is very sick and its long term survival prospects are
very dim. If *Windows is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists,
dabblers, and dilettantes. *Windows continues to decay. Nothing short of
a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical
purposes, *Windows is dead. "
Stop wasting your time coding shitty little operating systems.
These operating systems only contribute to the pile of shit open source ones already out there.
I mean come on, do you really think a bunch of open source nerds are going to produce something as successful and popular as Windows?
No, because they arent backed by a multi-billion dollar company, plain and simple.
Which "national" security are you talking about ?
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!