Web site: greenteaos.github.io
Origin: Ukraine
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: GUI
Architecture: x86_64
Based on: Independent
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Greentea OS – an open-source, free operating system based on open source code. The main idea of the project is to create a compatible environment for the existing software as fast and as qualitatively as possible and provide the user with the best experience with a personal computer.
Greentea OS does not limit itself just to running “.exe” files. Overall compatibility goals are:
– GUI and console .exe apps
– NT drivers (in the sandboxes/virtualized environments)
– Linux ELF executables (in a Docker-like environments)
– Android .apk apps
– Framework for other platforms emulation
GreenteaOS (Tofita) system requirements:
– 64-bit UEFI
– Very low on resources, just 2 GB RAM minimum required
– Motherboard with SATA (AHCI) or NVMe, PCIe and USB 2.0+
– Multicore modern 64-bit CPU (most AMD and Intel CPUs from Q3 2011 and newer)
Greentea OS itself is being mostly a GPL project.
I know I’m an idiot but where is the download. Unless downloading little bits and pieces is it. I have better things to do.
I concur, and no, you’re not an idiot.
The options seem to be either to somehow install the Teapot build environment and build the ‘engine’ out of bits and pieces, or, get the prebuilt Tofita ‘engine’, but that has no download candidate.
All there seems to be is various applications written in ‘Hexa’, a new to me programming language that compiles to javaScript.
It looks to me to be nothing more than either a sand-boxed desktop gui application that contains various programmes, or, some kind of kernel-less ‘atomic’ OS that is not really anything more than a web application.
I cannot make any more sense of it than that, because the information is too vague.
It looks pretty, though.
I found out some more information.
Greentea OS is apparently a fork of React OS that does not use WINE to run M$W applications.
React OS is still in alpha release 27 years since it was launched, and WINE is still not very capable 31 years since its launch.
Here is a link to a fairly incoherent YouTube video that shows just how (in)capable Greentea OS is: youtube.com/watch?v=EKUfyo4Ny6Q
Basically, Windows apps do not run.
But there is a download of an actual (6YO) ISO available: https://archive.org/details/GreenteaOS
By the looks of things, it’s not really any better than what it seeks to replace.
Here is a download: archive.org/details/GreenteaOS
GreenteaOS is a fork from ReactOS that seeks the same goals (running Windows apps natively) but without using WINE.
Good luck with that!
Considering that so many apps are available as containerised or portable apps, it would make more sense to work on them within a *nix paradigm than struggling to hammer square pegs into round holes.