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New PDOS Vlogs (Public Domain Operating System) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/425629

https://www.pdos.org/vlog/vlog.htm

Main site: https://www.pdos.org/

Public Domain Software Philosophy: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpgoal.txt

In the public domain software world I still mostly only see PDOS and various TempleOS related projects and forks

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's an unfortunate acronym

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really?

I find it useful as a file server.

Course, you need a special driver for Linux to access the pdofile service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why so?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Say it aloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just say it as P-DOS.

I’m guessing somehow you’re pronouncing it as paedo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that's how it's pronounced, and is apparent probably to those familiar with DOS, although to be fair I have recently thought of the alternative pronunciation suggested by the OP of this comment chain