Robert Szeleney's "SkyOS"

[Darren Dirt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyOS

SkyOS features SMP support, an integrated media subsystem and a 64-bit filesystem. Its filesystem was originally based on a modified version of OpenBFS but now has evolved into its own distinctive filesystem, SkyFS.

SkyOS is mostly POSIX compliant, and comes with the majority of the GNU tools, including GCC. Due to its POSIX compliance and port of the GTK+ widget toolkit, many Linux or other UNIX applications have been ported, including AbiWord and Gaim, as well as a number of games, such as Quake.

As of 2006, SkyOS has drivers for a wide enough range of hardware to run on most PCs.

Impressive.


http://www.skyos.org/?q=blog/

What I thought was interesting is the "Index Feeder", it appears similar to a categorizing/searching feature in the latest Mac OS, but of course it's not a huge team of paid geniuses responsible for it. WTG independent developers!