Trivial Solutions Corp. Happy Programmers Make Us Happy The LoseThos 64-bit PC Operating System * x86_64 * Preemptive Multitasking * MultiCored * 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. It's a kayak, not a titanic. Download LoseThos V6.03 (5.47 Meg) Live CD, so you can test drive or install. It's free. Burn a CD/DVD and boot it on a Core_i7, Core_2_Duo, Pentium_D... but 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. Yes, Core_i7, Core_2_Duo... Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition have a 64-bit mode. It's called "IA-32e" so as not to confuse with the Intel 64-bit Itanium non-x86 chips. IA-32e mode has 64-bit pointers and 16x64-bit registers instead of 8x32- bit. It's officially called "AMD64" since AMD invented it, but it's used in Intel chips. LoseThos requires IA-32e/AMD64. ISO files are block-for-block images of CD/DVDs. They can have boot sectors. You might need software to burn one. Linux will do it, MagicISO will do it, Roxio will do it and others. Your machine might already have an ISO burner. You reboot with the CD/DVD in the drive and make sure your BIOS is set to boot the CD/DVD first. If using VMWare, you don't burn a CD, you just point it to the ISO file on your hard disk. Your assumption might be that LoseThos is for pathetic hardware because of the graphics? Nope, it requires minimum of like, I donno, 2 Ghz. See LoseThos Graphics. Emulators are like running on pathetic hardware. Also, I have no interest in fixing LoseThos for the quirks of emulators and VMWare. It's stupid running it in an emulator or in VMWare. What's the point? 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 and multicore -- making it easy to program without struggling. That's what LoseThos is about. It's also about accessing more than 4 Gig RAM from one task. Other systems can't do that -- they're limited to 4 Gig address spaces even though they claim to be 64-bit. Try "malloc(8*1024*1024*1024)" and you'll see other systems are somewhat fraudulent. The easiest way to dual boot is to install a second, spare, hard drive and use the BIOS to select which to boot. A FAT32 partition can be used to transfer between operating systems. Make 2 or 3 tiny partitions for LoseThos and just copy everything to your back-up partition, periodically. The entire LoseThos distribution is 5 Meg, right? We're not in Kansas any longer. I wrote a 64-bit compiler and assembler making awesome innovations which will 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 Change Log Contact Trivial Solutions Demo Video * "Core_i7", "Core_2_Duo", "Pentium_D", "Itanium", "IA-32e" and "Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition" are trademarks of Intel Corp. * "Linux" is probably a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds. * "VMWare" is a trademark of VMWare Corp. * "MagicISO" is a trademark of MagicISO, Inc. * "AMD64" is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. * "Roxio" is a trademark of Sonic Solutions. * "Platoon" is a trademark of MGM Pictures. * "FAT32" is a trademark of MicroSoft Corp.