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SkyOS Development Team Quizzed

Posted by simoniker on from the limit-of-heaven dept.

Hexydes writes "TechIMO recently interviewed the SkyOS Development Team about SkyOS. The developers were asked questions regarding SkyOS 5.0, what a typical development day is like, and why they decided to work on SkyOS, which is 'a free operating system written from scratch for x86 PC's'. Included in the interview are pictures from the most recent beta build of SkyOS 5.0"

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  1. Re:Minimize, Maximize & Close ? by sglane81 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have actually downloaded it and installed it. It was really just a waste of my time. I downloaded it because all the screenshots they showed were nice and I had a spare box to play with before I put woody (Debian 3.0r2) on it.

    My findings are that the GUI is very basic and not very intuitive. I understand that a lot of work has been put into the project, but it hasn't come very far in a couple years. IIRC, most of the actions were buried in places I wouldn't think to look. I seriously doubt this OS will succeed because of the combination of the following:

    1. Closed Source
    2. Small Dev team
    3. Developers' poor attitudes

    This OS has been developed for a few years now and there isn't hardly anything to show for it. This will be YAHOS (Yet Another Hobby OS).

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