I'm glad someone mentioned this. There is interesting history around DVS because the first mainstream product "Final Scratch" used a modified Debian Linux OS (I

I'm glad someone mentioned this. There is interesting history around DVS because the first mainstream product "Final Scratch" used a modified Debian Linux OS (I believe the prototypes were on BeOS). This was in around 2000. I publish an open source DVS called http://xwax.org/ http://xwax.org/. I had the same goals as you describe; it had to be 100% stable before it did anything else. Hopefully it serves as a reasonable example of some of the advice in the article.