We have a lot of great operating systems out there but they were all created before the web and high performance 3D gaming. To try and move technology forward I am announcing the Duke Nukem Operating System.
Duke Nukem OS is a lightweight high performance open source operating system. The first release, codename “Forever”, is due out in late 2010. A promotional comic book will accompany the release and to insure it is available by the delivery date I plan to hire [Kevin Smith](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith) and [Alex Ross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ross) to write and illustrate it.
Although no screenshots, specifications, or source code will be available until release consider this a call to action for the open source community to get involved in the project.
This new operating system will be built on the Linux kernel but I will be throwing out the bloated window managers Linux is currently known for and building a next generating interface. I’ll be using XULRunner, the Mozilla runtime used to create Firefox, as the basis for this window manager but the tools to develop applications are exclusively web3.0 “semantic web” standards. [RDFa](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/), a next generation semantic markup language known for it’s simplicity and rapid rate of adoption, will be the primary language for building in this next generation operating system.
More updates in the future.
I really like the RDFa part! I just hope nobody thinks the name is too silly considering that Duke Nukem Forever was never released.
Or is this post in Jest?
Ah ah! You Mozillians keep on making me laugh! It’s funny how you never got off the fact that google released a browser that is much better and faster than firefox.
Like it or not, Chrome OS is gonna change a lot of stuff when it comes out next year, just like Chrome browser did to firefox and ie and safari. Google is keeping everybody on their toes!
For what it’s worth, I like the idea of writing local apps in JavaScript and HTML and I think Chome OS could be a very interesting piece of technology.
But come on, this is vaporware. Not only is it vaporware, it’s “Open Source” without any frickin source code and then they try to call out for the development community to hop on board. This view of open source, that we don’t have to be members of our own community and people should just come and contribute work for free is really offensive to me and to other people who work on community driven participatory software.
This, BTW, has nothing to do with Mozilla. I just couldn’t help myself and love making Duke Nukem Forever references
Wow this sounds fantastic, but please open up the development sooner rather than later!
People are building lightweight web-focused OSes that runs on low-end hardware (Chrome OS, Palm WebOS), but on these Firefox/Fennec is an afterthought. I seriously want one focused on XULRunner. The few things left you do locally are file management, multimedia player, pictures, and offline documents; they could be handled by extensions to Places, some local JavaScript code using the audio/video/canvas tags, and HTML5 local storage and Google Gears. I’m not sure you need RDFa since Places already has most of the metadata you want (tagging, when and where downloaded, search, etc.).
When’s the Alpha?!
Meanwhile, is there a Firefox-focused lightweight Linux distribution?
Hilarious
And even more funny that people don’t get that it’s a joke.
Will this run on XBox?
I read it’ll run on modded xBox’s only. and the Chumby, and inside of a Commodore64 emulator in a VM of the chumby os running on a chipped xBox. But that’s it.
This is great. I’ve always had the very same idea and I considered naming the project decko. Is there any way to paticipate in its early stage? Really looking forward to it.
How can anyone not get that this is a joke?
Don’t you see they’re trying to make it funnier?
It’s a joke and a worthwhile project. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping (SNL).
Linux runs too slow on my toaster, this will be perfect for it!!!
why do you guys think this is a joke? Google recently announced an OS which proves that there is a market for a new innovative OS.
this sounds awesome! wish it was true, cuz it sounds like a joke
This is hilarious!
For those who want to use / create such a beast… Check out http://moblin.org/ which is a great start towards this vision.
@Mr. Rogers
Well, it is called ‘Duke Nukem OS’, it is tagged ‘Parody’, and there is mikeal’s first comment.
Oh, and it is insanely obvious if you read the actual post.
Oh I get it, you’re talking about GNU Hurd.
/duck