“Lua OS is – or aspires to become – two things: 1) a first-class modern Linux distribution for the desktop that you can use every day for everything you want to do with your computer – and something that is always offering enjoyment. 2) a next-generation, orthogonally persistent operating system for portable, manageable and secure scripting code. The Lua OS project is spearheaded by Stefan Reich who deserted from Google Inc. in 2008 in order to pursue much greater visions.”
Lua is the best language ever, love it! I use some of their code, always good to see the lua community expanding over the years.
Oh great. More Lua. As if AwfulWM wasn’t tedious enough.
Someone make me a Haskel-OS. Now!!
Edited 2012-04-21 19:36 UTC
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Since you are asking for it,
http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/
http://halvm.org/wiki/
1 more linux distro?
I club a baby seal every time I see “another linux distro”. Just how many does the world really need? Please save the baby seals
On another note, If they are not just another disro with the GNU userland, then I’m all for it and that baby seal that I’m eying might just survive
Is this a response to http://ipython.org/ and their Python-based shell?
Took the iPython tutorial at PyCon this year and was astounded – what an incredible environment, especially for math-centric people! Highly recommended.
Unless you’re a Lua fanatic, of course. 😉
So that would be a lua… lufa… luna… lunatic, right? 🙂
I tried looking for more details about this, but the website reads as if it were written by someone with ADHD.
From what I can gather, it’s a Linux distro that uses Java/Swing for its GUI, or something like that. There was also something about sandboxing…
Reading http://forum.luahub.com/index.php?topic=3261.msg7400#msg7400 makes me wonder if there’s a specific goal beyond making a “Linux distribution that is awesome and uses Lua for a lot of stuff.”
I like Lua so I wish the project well and hope the enthusiasm lasts at least until a 1.0 release.
You mean this website?
http://sourceforge.net/p/safelua/wiki/Home/
Yes, it does sound just as crazy as you said and then some….
But, I think its wxwidgets rather than swing actually.
He wrote “We’re now at 0.6, and it’s generating quite a fuzz over at the lua-l mailing list. They complain about Java being part of the system. But hey, we need a GUI. And it’s just what works best. Swing, tested and tried.”
This was after he wrote “[wxLua] is weird. Can’t get stuff to work and no proper docs. I think I’ll be trying VCLua next. That looks nice and simple and it works on both Windows and Linux.”
Maybe Swing and wxLua/VCLua are for different parts of LuaOS. It’s a bit hard to follow!
Exactly my thoughts.
I see that Lua is not yet listed over at Distrowatch.com.
Why? Too new? Not enough users?
If anyone knows, please post. Thanks.
>>>> Oops, I get it now. On the Lua site it says it was only released on Oct 6 2011. Brand new.
Edited 2012-04-23 03:32 UTC
… because in real life he is a complete crank: http://www.improveyourlife.de/
Or maybe my irony detector is broken?
No way more than http://www.losethos.com/
Kochise
[x] madness: all tests passed
[?] genius: what operating is that guy writing?