tux9656

Uncharitable Spy
Linux is only UNIX-like and is written entirely from scratch. Mac OS X uses a fork of the FreeBSD kernel known as Darwin and has much source code in common. FreeBSD is descendant from 386BSD which is a descendant of the original BSD which is a descendant of AT&T UNIX. Mac OS X contains some source code from AT&T UNIX whereas Linux does not.

I can't wait until they make a minecraft redstone OS.
Do you realize how slow that would be running under Java? I think a OS running as a flash application would be faster. Also, don't forget Java doesn't allow you to declare a variable's type. Assuming UTF-16 character encoding, every boolean value in the OS would consume 16 bits instead of just one.

Has anyone ever used MINIX3? I think it's a relly nice OS. It just needs to support better filesystems, such as ext2/3/4, JFS, XFS, Btrfs, UFS, and ZFS, and needs to support more hardware.
 
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