Trivial Solutions Happy Programmers Make Us Happy The LoseThos 64-bit PC Operating System * x86_64 * Preemptive Multi-tasking * Multi-Cored * Open Source * Public Domain * Free The name, "LoseThos", was inspired by the scene in the movie, Platoon, where Elias says to Chris, "S**tcan this and this...", referring to dorky standard issue equipment. Download LoseThos V6.14 (5.56 Meg) It's a live CD, so you can test drive or install. It's free. Burn a CD/DVD and boot it on a x86_64 machine such as a Core_i7, Core_2_Duo, Pentium_D... nothing worse than a Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition. (You weren't hoping to run a 64-bit operating system on 32-bit hardware!) Also, it's not designed to run under emulation but will run in VMWare, if you're too chicken to run it directly. Your assumption is that LoseThos is for pathetic hardware because of the graphics? Nope, it requires a minimum of, like, a 2 Ghz CPU. It's the best you can do without GPU acceleration. See LoseThos Graphics. Emulators are like running on pathetic hardware, so run it directly. It's not very power efficient for laptops, either. The intended way to use LoseThos is to dual boot on your best machine. LoseThos is all about raw CPU horsepower -- 64-bit, multicored -- making it easy to program without struggling. That's what LoseThos is about. It's also about being able to access all memory from all tasks on all cores at all times with no segmentation, protections or bank switching. You can dual boot by installing it on a free partition on your main hard drive, but the easiest way to dual boot is to add a second, spare, hard drive; install on that; and use the BIOS to select which hard drive to boot. A FAT32 partition can be used to transfer between operating systems. Make 2 or 3 tiny partitions for LoseThos and, periodically, just copy everything to one of these partitions, making redundant back-ups. The entire LoseThos distribution is only 5 Meg, right? We're not in Kansas any longer. I wrote a 64-bit compiler and assembler making awesome innovations which may puzzle you. See Language Differences from C/C++. No point doing an operating system if it's not different and better. I started from scratch, overhauled everything including the programming language. Source code is not just ASCII, for example, but can include graphics. Introduction Screen Shots Features Motivation for Making LoseThos LoseThos' Constitution Strategic Decisions Requirements VMWare Installing Upgrading Main Help System Discussion of LoseThos' Graphics Source Code (Most) Complete Source File Listing Registered Version Hymns More Videos Bug Status Change Log Contact Trivial Solutions * "Core_i7", "Core_2_Duo", "Pentium_D", and "Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition" are trademarks of Intel Corp. * "VMWare" is a trademark of VMWare Corp. * "Platoon" is a trademark of MGM Pictures. * "FAT32" is a trademark of MicroSoft Corp.