Who is Going to Buy SkyOS? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday June 28, 2006 @02:55PM from the does-it-pique-your-curiosity dept.

An anonymous reader wonders: "With the huge amount of operating systems available (numerous free and non-free Linux distros, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD, etc) who would buy SkyOS? An OS that was once free will now become a commercial operating system with the release of version 5.0. Although 'Porting applications from POSIX operating systems is an easy task', applications will still have to be ported since SkyOS 'isn't based on any other operating system'. This leads me to wonder...is there something about this operating system that I'm missing? Has anyone out there tried SkyOS and why would anyone pay for SkyOS with all of the alternatives out there with tonnes of software easily available?"

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Steven King dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-28 15:06 · Score: -1, Troll

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Steven King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.