[bhauer]

I only ran into this a couple days ago and have obviously never even conceived of checking it out, but it seems to have been purpose-built to have a modern-day equivalent of the old hackable OSes of the 80s:

http://www.sparrowos.com/

[zokier]

SparrowOS has bit sad background: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992749

[rednukleus]

Poor SparrowOS. His operating system does look pretty cool, and I have a lot of respect for anyone who can write something like that.

[bhauer]

Wow, that is simultaneously saddening and remarkable. Thanks for pointing it out.