Talk:AtheOS

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From this page: AtheOS is a free Unix-like operating system for x86-based computers.

From the AtheOS website: AtheOS is not meant to be a new Unix clone (like Linux and *BSD) but a new clean desktop OS.

Ok, not that I know anything about AtheOS, but I'm confused to say the least.

I can see why :) I think what he meant is that he didn't specifically intend to create a typical command-line-system-with-lots-of-confuddling-directories-and-scripts Unix clone (or AmigaOS & BeOS clone for that matter), but a graphical desktop OS with an integrated gui & its own wiget set, which happened to end up being Unix-like and partially Posix(sp?)-compliant. An AtheOS system doesn't make use of X-Windows, GTK & QT, but does make use of GCC & BaSH, and can run Posix(sp?)-compliant programs with a minimal of porting work. I'm not a kernel-hacker, so I'm no expert on the subject, but to the best of my knowledge it is a Unix-like OS, and is considered as such by others too. If I'm wrong, don't be afraid to say why. Kurt Sk. seems to have halted all work on AtheOS about a year ago, and is now interested in aircraft. Why he would want to dump a huge hobby he had invested 6 years of work into and had almost completed nearly single-handedly remains unknown.

Actually AtheOS was originally started in 1994 as an AmigaOS clone, but that objective was abandoned. It was called "AltOS" before being renamed to AtheOS too. There're a couple of old screenshots floating around from before the name-change. Crusadeonilliteracy

Windows NT is fully POSIX-compliant (unlike AtheOS and even Linux) and we do not call it Unix-like.--Dojarca 15:33, 7 October 2007 (UTC)