Node OS

The main benefit they're giving is that you can use `npm` instead of `yum` or `aur` or whatever the package manager you use is. IMO, you're better off using Nix if you are tired of your package manager.

I'm astonished that this has been up for an hour and no one's mentioned Atwood's Law: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

It looks dead. I think they chose the wrong approach in lots of ways, but it wasn't that far from a JS (and Typescript) based OS on top of Linux that is actually a good idea. ChromeOS is kind of close to what I'd want, if you could remove Google from it. (I actually like ChromeOS, nearly perfect for my kid's computer) Firefox OS was also kind of close, but they missed in a lot of ways. Here are the…

So a quick look through the github repo, it appears that Node OS is : 1.) New Init Process 2.) New Shell 3.) NPM as a package manager Not really an "OS" in the traditional terms, but not just a distro. It uses glibc like most other distros. I would consider it half way between a traditional debian derivative and android in the sense that the environment could be completely different from traditional linux. That said, there is a reason…