09-30-2005, 09:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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The SimpleOS Project
Over at the Channel 9 forums, you'll find details of an adventurous .NET project known as SimpleOS. I had a few minutes up my sleeve to give this a test run and I must say, for early days, it's pretty neat. Perhaps it's worth noting that you will need a VGA Pocket PC or it will be close to pointless. Anyhow, the creator, iroot, is looking for developers to help with development of the project, so if you're up for the challenge, let him/her know.
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09-30-2005, 11:15 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 866
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Looks neat. Too bad I don't have a VGA PPC. You could fool a lot of people into thinking you had XP on your PPC :P
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09-30-2005, 01:47 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 87
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This is just a VNC viewer... or alike... correct??
I couldn't find much of a description of what this was, other than it looking like various operating systems and it being in testing...
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09-30-2005, 01:50 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 468
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I'm confused (a normal state of being for me as I get older)...
This is a new OS, or just a skin on top of Windows Mobile to make it look like XP?
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09-30-2005, 02:10 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Nah, this isn't even VNC or a Windows Mobile skin. It's a .NET application acting as a separate OS (designed to run on top of the current Windows Mobile OS). At the moment, it's about as non-functional as you can get, but it's still neat enough to check out.
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09-30-2005, 04:06 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 398
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Ahh Channel 9, the home of all the geeks that were thrown out of Slashdot because they liked Micro$oft too much.
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09-30-2005, 04:08 PM
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09-30-2005, 04:43 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 398
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Arghhhhh, the site isnt Firefox compatible, the second one I mean. :twisted:
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09-30-2005, 05:01 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 359
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Sterling are you sure this things gotten any better than it did the first time I tried it. I think it was a 1.X release and it blew big time. It kept hanging up and not working right. Alot of soft resets and aggrivation until I hard reset and left it off my PPC.
Is 2.X worth a retry honestly?
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09-30-2005, 07:35 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 794
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Did any of you guys read some of the criticisms that he was getting? They complained saying it was a wasted of time. I'm thinking, at least this guy is making it for free.... And I actually think it is a good idea. I like the xp interface, but too bad the development is in the very early stages...
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