I don’t know if this is the right place for this, but…
Could one create an Operating system using Python as a “skeleton”? Or does Python not work that way?
Probably better for off-topic since this forum is more geared towards Blender and Python, not Python in general (for the most part).
However, I would say this would not be possible as a pure python implementation.
That said, in theory, if you wanted to take a small distro of Linux that runs Python and continue on with implementing it (you may have to extend Python and the Linux to do it), it might be possible, though you would likely have to do lots of coding in C/Assembly/Other Low Levels and link them up as Python modules, since Python would need to be able to efficiently communicate with the OS a lot more than it does now. I don’t think I would try it though, since if you think Windows is slow, it would likely be unbearable on even moderately decent hardware. Beyond that it definitely would not be a one man project at all, since it would not be nicely pythonic in any way.
So Pure Python I think not (or at least I wouldn’t try it), with a mix of Linux (or BSD or other Open OS) a plausible, though it wouldn’t be a Python OS, then would it though?
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And then I google and am wrong:
http://code.google.com/p/cleese/
Or Right?:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-December/417823.html
I would have to agree with number two.
Probably better for off-topic since this forum is more geared towards Blender and Python, not Python in general (for the most part).
Better still Python.org forums.
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