Expanding on this. If target release is September 2014. I can't see how there is not functional prototypes that could be released for people paying. Considering the target market, why not release it. I'd be willing to pay for the early access. Not so sure I'd pay for a pre-order.
Well, cross-platform compatibility is one thing - but cross-hardware compatibility?
> Technically, FenOS is an Exo Core Intelligent Operating System that runs on any common Hardware architecture such as “x86”, ”x86-64”, “POWER-PC” and “ARM
dafuq? x86/-64 are common enough, but how will they run 64-bit apps on a 32-bit system without a shitload of translation? Same for PPC (who uses this arch anymore) and ARM (x64)?
I'm really interested in how they're planning to solve this challenge. Just look at ReactOS and how incomplete it is after years and years of development...
The term "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" sounds like meaningless marketing babble. I would have liked to believe otherwise, but there is no substantial technical information that I can find on that website. If anyone can explain what the author means, I'd appreciate it.
In terms of OS security, an integrated anti-virus package and a claim that no "external protection software" is needed to make the OS secure don't exactly inspire confidence.
My school still has an old SPARC machine running Solaris 5.x that all of the CS students have accounts on. They even have gnome installed and X11 forwarding enabled, but I'm not sure why...
This is very suspicious and if I had to make a bet, I'd say it is a scam.
First "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" is marketing BS. Which would be fine except they claim to be architecture agnostic which if true requires expensive cpu emulation. This is a warning flag, a real OS would warn about the massive downsides.
The big flag is they are taking "pre-orders" and are taking money only through Skrill. Skrill is the new name for moneybrokers, one of the only methods for unreversable money transfers. The only thing more suspicious would be BTC only payments.
Even if it is real, I can't imagine them implementing that many APIs correctly. They also don't mention anything about OS versions, and I don't know why anyone would bother reimplementing some of those ancient APIs.
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> Technically, FenOS is an Exo Core Intelligent Operating System that runs on any common Hardware architecture such as “x86”, ”x86-64”, “POWER-PC” and “ARM
dafuq? x86/-64 are common enough, but how will they run 64-bit apps on a 32-bit system without a shitload of translation? Same for PPC (who uses this arch anymore) and ARM (x64)?
I'm really interested in how they're planning to solve this challenge. Just look at ReactOS and how incomplete it is after years and years of development...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookZ59I9EyY
In terms of OS security, an integrated anti-virus package and a claim that no "external protection software" is needed to make the OS secure don't exactly inspire confidence.
First "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" is marketing BS. Which would be fine except they claim to be architecture agnostic which if true requires expensive cpu emulation. This is a warning flag, a real OS would warn about the massive downsides.
The big flag is they are taking "pre-orders" and are taking money only through Skrill. Skrill is the new name for moneybrokers, one of the only methods for unreversable money transfers. The only thing more suspicious would be BTC only payments.