An old friend, just asked if I can make thier company a custom Operating system. not an app an entire new OS... and if I have time to do it on the "side".

Make them a personalized linux OS lol

@ScribeOfGoD Here's how the convo went....

Friend: "Hey, can develop a operating system for our company. And will you do it on the side."

Me:"Erm, you mean like a program right? Not an OS"

Friend:"No, and OS... you know like Windows but better!"

Me:"Then you want linux"

Friend:"No we want OUR OWN OS"

Me: "..."

@kurtr it still would be their own, as no one else would have a copy or use it

@ScribeOfGoD I get that, I mean they want it to be thier OWN. Like from the ground up bs. And they can't even employ 1 full time dev, never mind the 40 it would take. It's a pipe dream. It's more of a pride decision than a business decision, I think the bosses ego has him losing his mind.

Write a simple form of DOS and call it a day. See if they have any idea what to do from a command line.

Bonus Points: To make it "their" system, change all the commands to something intuitive, but different (e.g. "collections" instead of "directories", resulting in "cc" to navigate into a folder...).

Select any Linux distro
Then use their name and logos about etc...
Cally it their is :)

Use Open SUSE studio :)

Tell him that the total number of all OS in the world can be counted on a hand. Then ask him if he feels intelligent enough to figure out why. Almost always works.

What these guys really mean is charge them first.. 👌

Direct them to Temple OS; I seen to remember it was the product of some chap who believed his code was the work of God working through him.