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Posted by Nicholas Steel
Samsung has for a while (maybe still do) used Tyzen for their Smart TV's O/S, which is a custom version of Android. It's not compatible with most Android software... our 2016 Samsung TV is also extremely slow & crap performing when doing anything computery.

Tizen actually has nothing to do with Android. It started as a joint effort among a bunch of companies to make an embedded operating system built on Linux. History lesson: The UI uses the EFL, Enlightenment foundation libraries. Enlightenment was the hip X11 window manager before KDE and GNOME brought in the desktop paradigm, and gnome actually used it as its window manager for quite a while before bringing in sawmill.

Posted by Kawa
My god, the absolute madmen.

Posted by Kawa

Posted by tomman
this time I voluntarily boarded the train to Shitville.

I didn't think that train ran in the first place.

    The issue you don't seem to understand here is that our in-tree
    libraries are often patched specifically for the quirks of our code, and
    of very specific versions (system-installed versions may or may not
    work, since APIs and behavior changes). Also, due to the sheer size of
    our code, number of components involved and interconnectivity between
    such components, any component that does not play well due to a version
    difference or missing a patch will have immediate and far-reaching
    impact on the rest of the resulting application.

    ..., there are too many unknown factors in the resulting binaries on
    user's systems. What you are asking is exchanging known-good
    combinations of libraries with unknown and potentially disastrous
    combinations as-present on end-user's systems.

Posted by Screwtape
There was an MS-DOS 8?

Posted by sureanem
Regarding Windows 10, I heard of this and would like to hear what someone who's more qualified thinks about it:

Posted by https://ameliorated.info/
Windows 10 AME (Ameliorated) - What Is This Project?

Windows 10 AME aims at delivering a stable, non-intrusive yet fully functional build of Windows 10 to anyone, who requires the Windows operating system natively. Spyware systems, which are abundant in Windows 10 by default, have not been disabled using group policy, registry entries or various other workarounds – they have been entirely removed and deleted from the system, on an executable-level. This includes Windows Update, and any related services intended to re-patch the system via what is essentially a universal backdoor. Core applications, such as the included Edge web-browser, Windows Media Player, Cortana, as well as any appx applications, have also been successfully eliminated. The total size of removed files is about 2 GB.

Great effort has been invested in maintaining the subsequent system’s stability, bug-free operation and user experience, as many of these removed services conflict with core Windows 10 features.

It sounds too good to be true, and I have no idea how they're able to legally distribute it, but the core concept seems reasonable.