Gopher-OS: A Proof of Concept OS Written in Go
I've never really understood OS:es. Why are so many people creating them, yet so few have any success? I've must have seen a dozen OS:es over the past two years on HN, most developed by people having no confidence in calling it a serious effort.<p>Why care about OS:es when there is no room for anyone on that level of abstraction apart from a handful developers at MS, Apple and Google?