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sfbloodbrother

sfbloodbrother

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Imagine an operating system with no restrictions. Imagine the freedom of running final cut pro 10 and Unix software together. An operating system with no restrictions. Run any software created for any operating system in one universal revolutionary operating system. Its 2014 and it should not matter what computer we choose to use. Everything should work together. And now it does.

FenOS is a new operating system coming in September. It removes the restriction of software not working on different computers. The operating system will cost $50 and is being released in September. Check out the official website.
http://myfenos.com
 
So when your software calls a location in the system, the system figures out whether it wants the iOS, Windows or Linux function at that address and executes it? I'll believe it when a pig delivers it to my computer by air.

The thread was started almost 3 weeks late.
 
EarlyMon said:
Yeah, Apple TOS is clear about where their apps run.
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FenOS developers claim that this operating system can run any mac, windows, Linux, Unix, or Solaris software within one operating system.

Apple probably will use then, however they are not stealing OSX in my opinion. OSX is an operating system. FenOS is its own OS. Not MscOSX.

Still. Apple being the selfish company they are will find a way to sue them.
 
This has nothing to do with stealing OS X.

The day that someone posts on a forum how to sideload and operate Mac iTunes, Mac Mail, Mac Safari or Mac anything else from Apple is the day that the Apple lawyers will crawl out from the woodworking and make them go away.

It's that simple, it's a historical fact, not an opinion. :p

As far as the correct library functions being called by native apps, that's no big deal. Each OS has its own shared library type.

This is a new take on an existing solution. It's not a new thing.

Get a Mac, install a virtual machine manager (Parallels, VM Ware, VirtualBox), install the other operating systems legally, run in desktop mode, presto, apps from Mac, Windows and Linux all running on the same desktop and working 100%. (Yes, Solaris is also possible but I just never cared.) No location confusion or anything else. (Cue the flying pigs. :D)

I've done it on lots of Macs, works great, and you get multiple PCs for the price of one Mac.

Obviously, this OS is simply bypassing a layer or two through library management and in the end doing the exact same thing.

Except on more hardware choices, right up until the lawyers come in.

I hate Apple lawyers as much as the next guy but this is a clear cut case of vulnerability against the EULAs involved. Can't fault them for that.

PS - the claim that all OS apps are running natively is unpossible.

No doubt it works on *some* POWERPC CPUs because some of them have native x86 execution cores. They do NOT have similar ARM cores.

Beware of anything that's too good to be true.
 
This seems to be great in theory however I think it will fail. Reason being not only possible lawsuits but also there will be very little support for it for the first few critical years. It also doesn't look to me to be open source. Looking at the page nothing screams out to me drop your openSUSE and go with this. Besides I don't want windows programs on my computer no matter what the OS is.
 
EarlyMon... You make me want to get a new iMac 27 in maxed out. I'd be all over mac if they weren't $4000 for a great one.

Some people say a Mac is the best Windows Machine.

Your probably right. FenOS will probably encounter a lot of problems with Apple. In theory its a great idea.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Imagine an operating system with no restrictions. Imagine the freedom of running final cut pro 10 and Unix software together. An operating system with no restrictions. Run any software created for any operating system in one universal revolutionary operating system. Its 2014 and it should not matter what computer we choose to use. Everything should work together. And now it does.

FenOS is a new operating system coming in September. It removes the restriction of software not working on different computers. The operating system will cost $50 and is being released in September. Check out the official website.
FenOS
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It's definitely an interesting concept, but I guess we'll have to see how it actually plays out.
 
Send $50 bucks by anonymous money transfer to some email address that's in Paraguay apparently, for a supposedly miracle OS that's not ready until September.

Ok.
 
This reminds me of Lindows, which, as I recall let one run Windows apps in Linux, before Wine was around... dead now. And somewhat of ReactOS, another great idea that is perfecting the art of going nowhere.
 
I'm sure if you really wish to run Mac OS X software on a non-Apple computer, like Final Cut or Garage Band or whatever. You have to do a hackintosh, which means it's actually running OS X.

jefboyardee said:
This reminds me of Lindows, which, as I recall let one run Windows apps in Linux, before Wine was around... dead now. And somewhat of ReactOS, another great idea that is perfecting the art of going nowhere.
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I remember Lindows, it was some commercial Linux based OS making great promises that it could run Windows software. That ended in legal action from Microsoft. They renamed it to Linspire, then it died. I believe it was Wine code it used, but a very early version of it.

ReactOS is a completely open source OS, it's not Linux or Wine though, that's still trying to attain compatibility with Windows XP. And it's moving very slowly or not at all. It's one of those things I've looked at probably every couple of years, put it on a virtual machine, see if it will run something like iTunes or MS Office 2010, find that it still doesn't, and then delete it. Can play Solitaire and Minesweeper though...LOL.
 
ReactOS is a completely open source OS
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I remember getting all jazzed about it when Vista was just cracking its egg, thinking I'd be saved by a non-MS Windows XP. Then Vista came and went, then 7, then 8, then 8.1, then 8.1 Update 1, and ReactOS is still trying to make an XP.
 
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