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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. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    got here first

  2. Who the hell cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why devote so much energy into implementing a mediocre system using ruby, of all languages, when you could spend time improving an existing system? These guys just did things that people have already done using a novel tool that has no real benefits for the task. Really, a programming language is just a tool...it's the binary that matters, regardless of how you created it...and the end result really has no practical use. Mod me into oblivion, I don't care...this is just a waste of time...it's the same people who spend all this time fooling around with those academic languages like SML and Scheme. Total waste of time...99.99% of the code out there is written in C -based languages (java, php, C++) for a reason...