RIRIMR·Jun 14, 2024
This is fun, but TempleOS is fully open sourced, and even has actively maintained forks.
https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
https://github.com/tinkeros/TinkerOS
In TempleOS Reverse EngineeringZeal-Operating-System
ZealOS
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Zeal-Operating-System / ZealOS
ZealOS
The Zeal Operating System is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System, TempleOS.
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The Zeal Operating System is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System, TempleOS.
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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8 sourcesThe original is forever frozen in time as a memorial to Terry’s genius, but there is an (at least somewhat) actively maintained fork, which has added features of which Terry himself would not have approved - https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS is the main one, which was last updated only a couple of months ago; by contrast, Minix’s last commit appears to have been in 2018 - https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix
But maybe that’s the answer for MINIX too - maybe one of the people who have authored all those unreviewed PRs might start a community-based fork. If all the activity moves to the fork, there is a chance the originators might officially bless it
In MINIX from ScratchYou might want to give Zeal:
https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
a try. It's 64-bit fork of TempleOS...
In VanadiumOS: Portable, multi-user Unix-like OSZeal OS is a modernized fork of the Temple Operating System
219 points · Open discussionA modernized fork:
https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
In A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)It's still maintained under the name ZealOS:
https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
In Serenity OS: InterviewZealOS a modernized fork of the 64-bit TempleOS
5 points · Open discussion