It's in its early days, but it has a working compiler, garbage collection, etc. It was announced on the Freenode #lisp channel; start reading at <a href="http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?around=2015-01-25T15:08:33&types=mnaot#1422198513" rel="nofollow">http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?around=2015-01-25T15:...</a><p>Screenshot: <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46753018/Screen%20Shot%202015-01-19%20at%2001.29.31.png" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46753018/Screen%20Shot%2...</a>
I like this. There is strength in having many different species of operating system. Monocultures are vulnerable to all kinds of diseases, one way to combat that is to have a (much) larger variety of operating systems so that infecting any of them has a very low return-on-investment.<p>So any new operating system that is far from the beaten path should be very much welcomed, this one is more interesting than most since it is written using a high level language.<p>Looking forward to an eventual release.
Nice! <i>Please</i> do alert us when it appears on github. I'm sure there will be interest.<p>EDIT: In fact if you can announce your github id now/soon people can start watching in earnest.
This looks very cool. I am going to wait until the source is posted on github before trying it. I was lucky enough to have received a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in the early 1980s, so having an OS written in Lisp seems reasonable :-)<p>Also, I agree with jacquesm's comment on the advantages of many operating systems.
Are people up voting this because they like the title or they like the link? Because there's literally more information about what this is in the HN title than the link. Is an anonymous paste the closest this thing has to a homepage?
I've been pleasantly surprised with its slick UI.<p>But, as with many Lisp OS images, there is an issue with explorability: how do I discover system commands in the REPL? I know a bit of Common Lisp, but it's not clear to me how to discover what system can and what not, how to explore the environment. Neither Filesystem Viewer provides any clues, nor does REPL.
Copy of install instructions here: <a href="http://okturing.com/src/2648/body" rel="nofollow">http://okturing.com/src/2648/body</a><p>Also might as well copy them here too:<p><pre><code> 1) Install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/
2) Download and ungzip the disk image from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46753018/Mezzanine%20Demo%201-disk1.vmdk.gz
3) Create a new VM in VirtualBox with the following settings:
Type: Other
Version: Other/Unknown 64-bit
Memory size: 512MB
Use an existing virtual hard drive file, the one you downloaded
4) Open the settings for the VM and switch to the Network tab.
5) Open the advanced settings and change the adapter type to virtio-net
6) Click OK. The VM is ready to start.</code></pre>
No issue with naming? I mean there is already an open-source project named Mezzanine, but it is CMS built with Django. <a href="http://mezzanine.jupo.org/" rel="nofollow">http://mezzanine.jupo.org/</a>
It's up on github (name changed to Mezzano because of the conflict with the CMS project):<p><a href="https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano</a><p>IRC log discussing building:
<a href="http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?from=2015-01-27T19%3A00%3A00&to=2015-01-28T00%3A00%3A00&type%5B%5D=m&type%5B%5D=a&type%5B%5D=n&type%5B%5D=p&type%5B%5D=o&type%5B%5D=t" rel="nofollow">http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?from=2015-01-27T19%3A...</a>
Now this is looks pretty nice and I'd like it to take off. It can be the next Lisp Machine but unfortunately it raises a red flag with the licensing terms - MIT.
The author distributed the binary without the source code which is fine with MIT. He might release the code or change his mind and never release it. Again this is his choice.<p>But at this point, the distributed image is not any different than a proprietary solution. What good is it for me if I can't change it?<p>No flame-wars please.
I don't know VirtualBox that well, the instructions in the post are unclear to me and don't work. Could someone elaborate this for VB-dummies like me?<p>Edit: Especially unclear is “<i>Use an existing virtual hard drive file, the one you downloaded</i>”. How do I do that?