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Rubyx OS - A Testament To The Power Of Ruby

Posted by timothy on from the makes-good-slippers dept.

Andrew Walrond writes "Rubyx the OS is created from source by rubyx the ruby script. Got it? The same small ruby script handles all subsequent package management, customised parallel and distributed user-mode package builds, and can create a live CD. For good measure, Rubyx (the os) sports an all new init and rationalised service management system written in ....can you guess?..."

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  1. Article... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 4, Funny

    ---For good measure, Rubyx (the os) sports an all new init and rationalised service management system written in ....can you guess?..."

    PERL ?

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  2. My thoughts on Rubyx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am not familiar enough with Rubyx to comment on it one way or another. But I will tell you this - if I am ever in the market for an obscure and potentially very slow object oriented scripted OS - I will certainly consider Rubyx to be in my top 20 picks.

  3. Logo by Steven+Reddie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lets start an OS written entirely in Logo. Drawing buttons and such will be easy enough, but it's the scheduler that is going to take some creativity. All user apps will also be written in Logo and it will be possible to virtualise the entire OS inside a user app. Extra care must be taken to ensure process don't write over the top of each other.

  4. Re:Um, isn't this just another Linux distro? by popeyethesailor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn straight. They should have named it GNU/Glibc/XFree(C)TM/QT/KDE/Ruby-Lang/Rubyx .

  5. Re:Who the hell cares? by pyman · · Score: 3, Funny
    99.99% of the code out there is garbage and would be better written in INTERCAL.

    Seriously, where do you get your statistics from? Your arse? Thought so.

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    a ^= b; b ^= a; a ^= b;
  6. So ..... by CoolCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    When will it be self aware?