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Let's just say...
by MechaShiva on Sun 2nd Mar 2014 20:16 UTC
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RE: Let's just say...
by Morgan on Sun 2nd Mar 2014 20:44 in reply to "Let's just say..."
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I always run hobby OSes in a VM first. Unless the OS developer has builds or documentation for a specific VM app, I generally start with VMWare and VirtualBox. If it doesn't run well in either of those I'll try out some smaller, older projects like Bochs or Qemu. I also have an old PIII class computer with a spare drive that I use for bare metal testing, once I've successfully booted and ran the OS in a VM.

Haiku is the only hobby-class OS I've been brave enough to run on my main workstation, and that was after unplugging my main OS and storage drives. While I pretty much know what I'm doing, there's always room for error.

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RE[2]: Let's just say...
by MechaShiva on Sun 2nd Mar 2014 21:18 in reply to "RE: Let's just say..."
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Typically, I dust off an old machine I've got kicking around the office and go to town. This has helped scratch the itch for everything from Syllable to Haiku, to ReactOS and MenuetOS (and on and on). For Genode, that doesn't seem like it'd be sufficient.

Between the capability frameworks and pluggable kernels, I feel like it would need a project or task of some kind above and beyond simply installing it to really get a feel for what they're doing and what they're trying to do. Same with something like SmartOS or DragonflyBSD. Yes, you could go the VM route to get a taste, but in order to get a real sense of where the developers are taking the project, I feel like you need to test it in an environment that shows off the project's strengths.

My friend would, I mean. Darn it.

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