Zeal OS is a modernized fork of the Temple Operating System

What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.

My favorite quote from a Terry not Pratchett.

I guess we are talking about Terry again.

Terry was my first look into how mean the internet is. Here was a man, wicked smart, but with some very clear issues. He was kind enough to share himself with all of us, producing videos and putting his work out there but Instead of engaging with him while recognizing his limitations, we mocked him. People turned up to prod him to say "CIA N...". They asked him the same 5 questions to bait him into saying something stupid. It was honestly horrible.

Learning of Terry marked the end of my internet innocence. Suddenly it wasn't just fun and games, but real people with real lives.

Terry had schizophrenia and lived with his elderly parents while developing his OS.

Then, Internet trolls targeted Terry because of his controversial remarks.

The trolls celebrated all of his questionable actions, ruining his relationship with his parents who eventually kicked him out of the house. At that point he became homeless, living in a car.

Because of his mental condition, he broke the law in several occasions. In his late videos he can be seen unshaved and having difficulties to keep personal hygiene, unlike before he became homeless, where he was always shaved and clean.

Not so long after becoming homeless he died killed by a train and some believe it was suicide.

The fact that GitHub identifies HolyC as a proglang is magnificent.

Another, similar project: https://github.com/minexew/Shrine

Terry Davis was clearly the mad scientist we didn't know we needed. He brought many useful insights to OS development. Maybe one day the seeds he planted will grow out to become a wonderful tree. On days when he wasn't hampered by his medical issues some people remember him to be an extremely skilled teacher, patient with people who asked genuine questions. There was that side to him too.

It's great to see that Terry's legacy lives on.

He was an incredibly gifted, yet equally troubled, individual, with some noble goals for what computing should look like. There are many good ideas in TempleOS we can all be inspired from, and I'm glad there are people working on expanding and making them more accessible.

Is it glowing too?

Terry Davis was the main reason I chose to permanently have showdead: [yes]

It has networking. Sacrilege

RIP Terry, beautiful but troubled genius.

Also posted yesterday: “A constructive look at TempleOS (2015)” (3 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33576385.

Remembering Terry Davis, 1969-2018.

So Protestantism has finally hit TempleOS?

Blasphemy

this potentially qualifies as blasphemy so i should probably steer clear

Nifty, but that font rendering burns my eyes. Might it workout both technically and philosophically to pipe all the text output through LaTeX or some similar thing?

I was asking myself: Why? Isn't this in bad taste? Isn't this continuing a meme long after it has turned from funny to sad?

I am sure the answer is just because we can, just for fun, to make it more accessible. But I kind of wish there was an answer to that question in the README or on the site.