So the Slashdot [1] crowd are raning about this new operating system called V2 OS. [2] Since one of my many little hobbies is collecting and critiquing homebrew/alternative operating systems, I decided to give this one a try.
It seems that you can only get a binary so I can't comment on the code quality (all 80x86 Assembly code of course) but I did try to boot it. I have a spare 486 that normally runs a network monitor I wrote (one of these days I'll get around to releasing it) but hey, it's a PC and it'll spare me the trouble of rebooting my main system.
V2-OS ...................OK System16 code is now in control. ERROR: Failed to retieve [sic] information on the bootdisk...[1] Creating PartitionList. ERROR: Failed to retieve [sic] information on the bootdisk...[4]
[sic]'s are mine
Can't quite understand why it failed. Linux boots fine from floppy on this system. The only unusual thing about the system (other than it being a Compaq 486) is the lack of a harddrive (I actually use a modified tomsrtbt [3] distribution—it's a nice single disk Linux distribution that makes a very good rescue disk for PCs). Everything else on the system is pretty much vanilla PC.
The last “Fastest Proprietary 80x86 Based Operating System” [4] they featured at least came with source code. A good thing because it's long gone. All the links I have to it are no longer valid. I wonder how long this one will last?
[1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/07/1617224&mode=threaded