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Zeal OS

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57 pointsgscott10 comments

> ZealOS strives to be simple, documented, and require as little of a knowledge gap as possible. One person should be able to comprehend the entire system in at least a semi-detailed way within a few days of study.

Another OS that I find to be comprehensible is XINU[1]. Its code is concise and very clear. It comes with a book that explains the OS with the complete code inside it.

[1] https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu/

It makes me happy to see TempleOS development continue. Will I use it? Probably not. Will it make a measurable impact in my life? Again… probably no.

The best way I can describe it is that it is the best of the internet. Taking something obscure and giving it the care and love that it needs. That makes me happy. When I get sick of the internet becoming unusable because of ads and paywalls, I think of projects like this. It restores my faith in the dream that the internet once was.

TempleOS might not be well-known in the corporate world but it was definitely talked about quite a bit in the hobbyist OS community. Terry Davis was always sitting on the border between genius and insanity, and sadly crossed it and met an early demise.

Heh, Github recognizes that the repository is mainly in HolyC

I still think of Terry Davis every once in a while. Such a genius man, such unfortunate end. He'd surely be there among Bill Gates and Steve Jobs if it wasn't for his illness.

It apparently is implemented in "ZealC"

> Changes include:

> HolyC -> ZealC

This is a "professionalized" version of Terry Davis' Temple OS.

Should include some screenshots of the Oracle to make it complete

Thank you for regurgitating the very first line of the readme file.

Or what Terry Davis would call it... blasphemy!

Shrine is a self-described heretical TempleOS fork: https://github.com/minexew/Shrine

Notably, it has networking, though ironically it seems to hew closer to Terry's vision than ZealOS.

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