Since you said that the infected computers were bringing down your network have you tried VLANing the 'trouble makers' off from the rest of the users? Seems like that would protect others from network floods and allow you to more easily quarenteen and correct the problem.
How is this a flaw? They are drawing people to their OS who might see SkyOS as a viable alternative by supporting (in the future, at least) applications that are currently in use. Who would be willing to try an OS if no apps. ran on it? If you can run your favorite editor, web browser, etc. etc. on both SkyOS and Linux then you can really make a comparison between the two and might spend more time getting to know it.
Also, it would be difficult for this small team to make much progress on their OS if they had to create SkyOS compatible versions of EVERY application people might like to try on it. Let them focus on OS development, not on applications. An easy way to do this: run existing Linux apps.
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Since you said that the infected computers were bringing down your network have you tried VLANing the 'trouble makers' off from the rest of the users? Seems like that would protect others from network floods and allow you to more easily quarenteen and correct the problem.
How about a fully premptable kernel without having to apply a patch.
How is this a flaw? They are drawing people to their OS who might see SkyOS as a viable alternative by supporting (in the future, at least) applications that are currently in use. Who would be willing to try an OS if no apps. ran on it? If you can run your favorite editor, web browser, etc. etc. on both SkyOS and Linux then you can really make a comparison between the two and might spend more time getting to know it.
Also, it would be difficult for this small team to make much progress on their OS if they had to create SkyOS compatible versions of EVERY application people might like to try on it. Let them focus on OS development, not on applications. An easy way to do this: run existing Linux apps.