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TempleOS and 9front in Review
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XDA ☛ This is the strangest operating system I've ever tried on my PC
It's not all that often you get to play around with an operating system as unique as TempleOS. Developed by one man, Terry A. Davis, TempleOS is a 64-bit open-source operating system that, while on the surface, may seem simplistic and messy, is actually a very impressive amalgamation of one man's inspiration from god, combined with great programming prowess, and ultimately forever tied with tragedy. It's definitely the weirdest OS I've ever tried on my PC, but I don't regret it in the slightest.
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Terry's story is a complicated one, but as far as his software goes, TempleOS was developed as a way to get back to his roots as someone who very much enjoyed the Commodore 64. He was a very adept computer programmer, but as he began to struggle with schizophrenia in the mid-90s, his mental state began to deteriorate, and he began to believe that government agencies were spying on him, and that God was relaying messages to him through the code he created.
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XDA ☛ 9front is a weird Unix-based operating system with an even stranger history
Familiar names like Windows, macOS, and Linux dominate the world of operating systems. Beneath that mainstream layer, though, lives a shadowy ecosystem of niche projects that often carry strange legacies. One of the most unusual examples is 9front, a fork of an already obscure operating system called Plan 9. While Linux and BSD have thriving communities and plenty of practical use cases, 9front is different because it thrives on eccentricity.