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There has to be some market need to make a new OS. Right now there isn't much of one. What will it practically accomplish that the current infrastructure does
by woolvalley 9y ago
There has to be some market need to make a new OS. Right now there isn't much of one. What will it practically accomplish that the current infrastructure doesn't?
The future of OSes is stuff like android, iOS, Qubes (security) or MirageOS (simplicity for security)
- nextos 9y agoAnd NixOS, a fantastic functional way to administer machines. And ready for prime time.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoThat's the vision of the future that makes me want to give up computing and live in a cave.
- woolvalley 9y agoThe thing is the benefits are not big enough for the costs compared to other more exciting things like self driving cars and machine learning. Also 'make a new os' is much like 'rewrite vs improve in place'. Most mature engineers do improve in place. New systems research innovations come through improve in place operations. Change a filesystem, change that subsystem and eventually you have a new way of doing things.
- fh973 9y agoMarket need likely, but it is hard to get people to pay for software licenses.
- woolvalley 9y agoOh they are willing to pay for it, if it can be delivered properly. What do you think sysmantec and a million other enterprise security and it management companies are part of?