Re: ANN: Lua OS 0.6

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 25.08.11 14:47, schrieb Mateusz Czaplinski:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25-08-2011 03:55, Stefan Reich wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> IT'S A FUCKING LUA OS.
>>> WE ARE MAKING A LUA OS.
>>>
>> Hmm... It might just be my references that are obscured, but so far your
>> project does not fall within a "Operating System", from my perspective you
>> are creating a "Application Server". And I do think, that the dependencies
>> on Java also falls into the Application server category.
>>
>> But for me a, "Lua OS"  is something that I can install on a raw piece of
>> hardware, not something I run on the top of other OS's.
>>
> 
> +1 in my eyes, unfortunately. Although maybe there's some idea that it'll
> start from the "middleground" OS infrastructure, leveraging Java for the
> rest, and later expanding towards low-level and hardware? or something?
> 
> As of the words quoted by Stefan etc., I choose not to get involved. If
> that'll become trolling, better not feed; if it's an accident, I hope to
> forget ASAP.

As a developer involved in operating systems for many years I can only
second this.  Lua OS is in no way an operating system.

But that does not mean that it is not an interesting project, just it is
not an OS.