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> We wrote the beginnings of an operating system I want better hardware, but as a pro software developer, I can't really adopt a fundamentally different operat
by dfabulich 10y ago
> We wrote the beginnings of an operating system
I want better hardware, but as a pro software developer, I can't really adopt a fundamentally different operating system, even if it is "better."
I don't care how nice your hand-crafted kernel is; if I can't run a JVM, Node.js, and the Android toolchain on it, I can't do my professional work on it.
- Eridrus 10y agoAnd that's not even getting to the tricky parts like virtualization or CUDA drivers.
- mamcx 10y agoI have dreams about this, and think the bare os must be a kind of hypervisor. Then, on-top, you can launch "classic" OS like windows, linux, etc. Then also, the new OS.
- abm2205 10y agoi've had the same thoughts. I think the future might be hyper-visors hosting operating systems of all types, each one serving a singular purpose for which is configured to serve most optimally.
- inimino 10y agoFrom a UI perspective, how is this any better than just running your preferred OS and firing up a VM when you need to?
- Corrado 10y agoI don't know about that. NExT was pretty revolutionary and it worked really, really well. If they could have gotten the hardware price down to something a college student could afford I might be typing this on a completely different stack. Sometimes a radical shift is what's needed. Apple is the new Microsoft and might just be ripe for a disturbance.