LoseThos 7.00

Rated 20/50 by mikeeberhart at Sep 30, 2008

Although this operating-system has a few neat things going for it, it has a plethora of negatives that outweigh the positives, and essentially most any average modern computer user will find it beyond frustrating for many reasons. Here are some of my observations: Pros (Few) * Small, and perhaps small enough for the code to be understood, should someone wish to make the effort. * Responsive for most part, tough given the ridiculous limitations, it is not too surprising that what is there is responsive * 64-bit and multi-core ready, though not sure why even bother given how little that functionality can really be used. Cons (Many) * JUST PLAIN STRANGE ON SO MANY LEVELS * It could not get much more unintuitive (perhaps it is the only OS nearly as bad as BlueBottle Oberon in this regard!) * Will not work in VMWARE because it is so completely non-standard in every regard, like... * Proprietary file format with embedded binary data (like graphics, etc) that nothing else can read. Thus, even though you can "see" files from FAT system, you can't open/read them without problems (to say the least -- EOF is meaningless to FAT due to how this Losethos uses the characters.) * File system is compressed!? And I do not mean ZIP or anything obvious or standard (surprise, surprise)! This requires a custom "tool" program to transfer files from other computers via a "partition", and special tools to decompress, etc. Every file extension ending in "Z" is compressed version of normal. ASZ (ASM compressed), CPZ (CPP file compressed), etc. Basically, the developer feels that you should install this on a dedicated computer, and only use the tools contained in this "OS" to edit anything, etc. * Even the bootloader is fricking proprietary weirdness and lameness! * Language(s) and compiler-directives, etc are all non-standard!! In fact, it implements its own proprietary C and ASM code and comp

Rated 40/50 by losethos at Oct 1, 2008

Just to clarify a couple misconceptions the last reviewer spoke of... First... why are you exploring alternative operating systems if you want them to be like Windows or Linux? It's pointless to make it the same, stupid in fact. See http://www.losethos.com for an explaination. I will proudly proclaim it is 100% new, different and I claim better. It's for programming as entertainment -- writing new programs, not running programs imported from elsewhere. You can do "hello world" in one line of code and draw graphics on the screen in two. Files with names not ending in 'Z' on FAT32 partitions can be freely transferred in and out of another operating system you duel boot with and they will be uuncompressed. If you have a file ending in 'Z', copy it to a name not ending in 'Z' and it will be stored uncompressed. It's 18 Meg because it has a dictionary and the Bible. I didn't want to scare people with a file that is 2 Meg or have it dismissed as too small to be significant. If it were not 100% new, it could not be public domain. You can do anything you like with it, even make money. You do not need to mention it if you encorporate it into something you sell. You do not need to share code changes with me. You can fork it. You can make a video game that runs on a live CD and sell it. (LoseThos is only 18 Meg (or 2 Meg) and you could make a universal video game CD, independent of operating system because it includes an operating system.)

Rated 50/50 by darkwzrd1 at Jun 29, 2009

Someone needs a girlfriend, other then their Core i7 Processor.

Rated 40/50 by bobad at Aug 5, 2009

Interesting, but weird. Too steep a learning curve for all but a few geeks. Even when you learn it, it's not something you would use every day unless coding is your passion. The author is obviously talented, and should spend his time helping out on the ReactOS project. At least the end product will be useful to millions of people, not just a few geeks. 4 stars for originality.

Rated 10/50 by Raton at Apr 25, 2010

Weird and indecipherable. Don't try this at home. Home Planet, that is ! Only illegal aliens -space aliens- know how it works ...even ~they~ can't run it ! The PC Rat recommends they finish their bottle of Jack Daniels, and go to bed. The Computer Rodent

Rated 50/50 by Nightside at Jun 16, 2010

Totally cool. This is for geeks, not for morons. Go whine somewhere else.

Rated 50/50 by ghammer at Jan 13, 2011

Most fun I've had with a computer since my Apple II