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Story: Kernel Attached Operating System (KaOS) initial public releaseTotal Replies: 16
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lcafiero

Dec 19, 2009
12:03 AM EST 		. . . or like BeOS (and its software, called BeWare), is this an uncommonly unfortunate choice of an acronym?

First and foremost, in the television show "Get Smart," KAOS was the organization that CONTROL was fighting.

To say nothing of the homonym for KaOS which, of course, is chaos.

jezuch

Dec 19, 2009
5:14 AM EST 		Maybe they're fans of Roger Waters?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_K.A.O.S.)
hkwint

Dec 19, 2009
9:42 AM EST 		And after watching all those weird names, they amused themselves to death? Well, that makes sense!
caitlyn

Dec 19, 2009
6:56 PM EST 		Linux includes a distro named Debris and a library called Clutter. Names that are contrary to any sort of sane marketing seem to be popular with some Linux developers.
Sander_Marechal

Dec 19, 2009
8:54 PM EST 		Marketing suits have nothing on a geek sense of humor :-)
hkwint

Dec 20, 2009
3:59 PM EST 		caitlyn, you forgot to mention the OS called Inferno and its programming language called Limbo. And the text editor of Inferno is called ACME, just as the old DOS-virus.

And now they wonder why it didn't pick up...
tuxchick

Dec 20, 2009
4:01 PM EST 		Don't forget Con Kolivas' renamed scheduler BFS. sigh. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt
caitlyn

Dec 20, 2009
4:04 PM EST 		You couldn't give the full name, of course, since this is a family-friendly site. Con is a brilliant programmer but his choice of names is, well...
jezuch

Dec 20, 2009
4:06 PM EST
Quoting:renamed


Actually, it's reimplemented.

Quoting:BFS


At least he had a reason to call it that way :)
hkwint

Dec 20, 2009
6:13 PM EST 		Well, you know what Con means in French I suppose?

And BFS, wonder what that looks like. I guess something like:

>[-]>[-]<<[->+>+<<]>>[-<<+>>]<<
montezuma

Dec 20, 2009
9:25 PM EST 		Must make for a fun time for French tourists in Greece.
gus3

Dec 20, 2009
11:54 PM EST 		Uh, monty, did you get the wrong thread?
mortenalver

Dec 21, 2009
5:00 AM EST 		I assume this scheduler was not written in the language the name indicates.
hkwint

Dec 21, 2009
7:02 AM EST 		I surely hope it wasn't! But the idea is still fun.
mortenalver

Dec 21, 2009
8:58 AM EST 		I'm not sure it would really be open source any longer...
montezuma

Dec 21, 2009
5:54 PM EST 		gus3, Shrugs. Yet another attempt at humor fails. You do realise that Con is a Greek Australian?
gus3

Dec 21, 2009
6:37 PM EST 		@monty:

Yes. I go to a Greek church.

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