Trivial Solutions Happy Programmers Make Us Happy The LoseThos 64-bit PC Operating System If you have an x86_64 PC machine such as a Core_i7, a Core_2_Duo, a Pentium_D... nothing worse than a Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition, then enjoy the clean, 64-bit, programming environment of LoseThos. In addition to having 64-bit registers, there are eight additional general purpose registers in 64-bit mode! LoseThos is the ultimate in clean because all tasks on all cores can access all RAM memory at all times with no banking, protections or segmentation. Essentially, there are no virtual addresses, just physical because PAGING IS NOT USED and pointers are 64-bit, able to access, directly, all of the 12 Gig RAM physical memory on my machine, at all times from all tasks on all cores. LoseThos is like nothing else -- I wrote all of it, entirely from scratch, including the compiler/assembler. It is the ultimate in clean and simple. See the LoseThos Constitution for the essence of LoseThos. I can't be in the business of having different drivers for the same class of device. LoseThos sticks to reasonably common hardware for 64-bit or better machines. Since GPU's vary, LoseThos has no GPU acceleration. This article explains that a GPU is much faster than a CPU. Non-GPU graphics are too slow for high resolutions, so LoseThos will always be 640x480x 16 color. (It takes 1/37th as much CPU power for 640x480x4 compared to 1600x1200x24.) Download LoseThos V6.12 (5.53 Meg) Burn a CD and boot it. It's Free! This is not a amateur operating system. I was a paid operating system developer for Ticketmaster at age 20 in 1990. Unlike Linux, LoseThos includes a complete tool-chain -- I wrote a 64-bit compiler/assembler. As anyone will tell you, Linux is a just a kernel, but GNU/Linux is an operating system. LoseThos is mostly done. LoseThos will never have networking, other graphics modes, or USB support, unless USB is required for keyboards and mice. What else is there? I'll have to find something. I might do applications, I guess. LoseThos is for recreational programming. I donno, why did consumers buy those kits in the 1970's where you flipped switches to program? With LoseThos, user programmers are a higher priority than developers and simplicity is a priority. So, LoseThos is for a small niche. This is not a group-think understanding of "operating system." LoseThos's simplicity offers something distinct compared to Linux because Linux's code is intimidating. In the case of Linux, the term, "open source" is cruel to amateur programmers. LoseThos is not for pathetic hardware -- it's 64-bit and multicored. That's a common misconception. Find-Out More * "Core_i7", "Core_2_Duo", "Pentium_D" and "Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition" are trademarks of Intel Corp. * "Linux" is probably a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds.