A little explanation may clear up the picture a little bit and probably change the view you have on µnOS. Your criticism is understandable regarding that you obviously do not know much about the technologies used and, much more important, combined in this OS. As soon as you know that µnOS combines the concept of a real-time microkernel with an efficiently working client/server architecture featuring high stability, reliability and portability and if you furthermore take into account that (especially) the currently available demo (which unfortunately is not up to date) is just a proof that µnOS with its ambitious features is working, you will have a different view on it.
Many people forget that an OS is not generally an operating environment with GUI and lots of applications. Although many people think so as to them the graphical representation of the system's user interface (which is almost only a matter of design, not of the OS itself) is the OS. A fancy GUI may be a hint to a well designed OS, but not the other way round. An OS can already be well designed before you can even see a single character or pixel on your screen.
µnOS is in an early stage, no doubt, and our approach (or philosophy if you want) does not make it easier to impress people with daily eye-cathching news: we try to get things (largely) done before starting new challenges. This does NOT mean, that we keep stuck to a task until it is 100% done. But it means that we do not start broadly into new tasks before the underlying parts of the system are not largely implemented or at least designed. This has absolutely nothing to do with an idealistic attitude but is the way of working which allowed us to develop and to implement µnOS without having a quickly increasing number of open 'building lots' to get fixed.
We are curently working on widening the palette of features and applications in µnOS, but this will take time and can be relieved by all of you: test µnOS (as Sonic did) and give us your feedback in form of fair comment. Sonic's comment is appreciated, but does not help us to improve µnOS. We are not a huge company and µnOS still lacks many things. But if you understand the features µnOS provides, you will realize the potential and possibilities it has. We will keep on doing our best to turn its potential into real benefits and all we are asking for is the goodwill and maybe support from those who like µnOS and the ideas behind it.
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