Quake as an OS?

Sure there is. It uses the Doom-Linux port as a frontend for sysadmin
commands, so you kill processes by shooting them with a shotgun. Whoo-ha!

Here's the original project page: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

Here's the current Sourceforge page (doesn't seem that active, though the
disclaimer is amusing): http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

Here's an article that a certain Rhizome staffer once wrote about it for
Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/eword.html?pg=4

Cheers,

Francis


—– Original Message —–
From: "Scott Paterson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 2:17 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Quake as an OS?


> hi all,
> any of you recall a project where someone modified quake(or Doom) to be an
> ersatz operating system?
> thanks,
> [sgp]
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