jsos

Infrastructure

operating system

SHOW HN2012

57points
13comments
#411of 1,677 in 2012
Top 25%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Docs: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Impressive work, especially for a young author

    From 1 comment
    • Found some screenshots on the creators twitter stream (https://twitter.com/#!/charliesome). http://i.imgur.com/oiRZo.png http://i.imgur.com/ISlpA.png Very impressive, even more…
      elliottcarlson on HN
  • Interesting hobby project

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting hobby project. Since there's no readme, a brief summary: * Implements a minimal bootstrap environment (very small kernel and tiny libc implementation) which hands…
      Produce on HN

Objections

  • No readme or explanation of purpose

    From 3 comments
    • Given the wide variety of Javascript add-ons and modules, A brief explanation of what the product does and what it might be used for placed in the read me document would have…
      hsmyers on HN
    • When I saw this on HN I directly voted up the post. When I saw the Github repository without any readme or info I regretted.
      tferris on HN
    • Interesting hobby project. Since there's no readme, a brief summary: * Implements a minimal bootstrap environment (very small kernel and tiny libc implementation) which hands…
      Produce on HN
  • No screenshots or status information

    From 2 comments

Requests

  • Add a readme or project summary

    From 2 comments
    • Given the wide variety of Javascript add-ons and modules, A brief explanation of what the product does and what it might be used for placed in the read me document would have…
      hsmyers on HN
    • When I saw this on HN I directly voted up the post. When I saw the Github repository without any readme or info I regretted.
      tferris on HN
  • Add screenshots

    From 1 comment
  • Provide a status document

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • How does it compare with WebOS?

    From 1 comment
  • How much of it works?

    From 1 comment
  • How to learn to build something like this?

    From 1 comment
    • How would one go about learning how to do something like this? Books, websites, blog posts?
      acoover on HN

Alternatives named

  • jslinux by Fabrice Bellard

    From 1 comment
    • I thought it was going to be http://bellard.org/jslinux/ , but I am excited to see being written with js in mind the wonderful.
      cleverjake on HN
  • WebOS

    From 1 comment

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