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skiftOS

So on OS News I see skiftOS: a hobby operating system and the description reads:

skiftOS is a hobby operating system built for learning and for fun targeting the x86 platform. It features a kernel named hjert, a graphical user interface with a compositing window manager, and familiar UNIX utilities.

I had to give it a try using VBox. I wasn’t sure which image to use and just downloaded bootdisk-limine-x86_32.img and ended up converting it to a VDI before I found the instructions. There is quite a lot of documentation if you scroll to the bottom of the Github page. This is the initial startup screen:

This is a shot of the task manager, it had locked up at this point:

The about screen:

Anyway, it locked up a few times, but it is a neat OS, and maybe I’ll look at it some more later.