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It seems the 2 biggest hurdles of creating a new OS (aside from designing and actually writing the damn thing) is software support and driver support... Silly
by Jupe 9y ago
It seems the 2 biggest hurdles of creating a new OS (aside from designing and actually writing the damn thing) is software support and driver support...
Silly idea, but how about a "super" terminal OS... that does a few primary things:
1. Responsive clients for various UIs (X, VNC, RDP, SSH, Powershell, etc.) - Having a full UI to use my smart phone would be awesome.
2. Run VMs (which can run docker, etc.)
3. Uses some mechanism (wave hands here) on the remote machines to facilitate storage, computation?, graphics, audio, clipboard and printing on the local terminal.
4. Strong support for a few devices. Pick a few network cards and graphic cards to support, perhaps a few other basics, and leave it at that...
I know it would still take years of writing a LOT of code, but this could reduce the lack of software support. Drivers are still a sticky issue...
(Yeah, like I said, a silly idea!)
- sprayk 9y agoPlan 9 sorta does 3. Can execute on one device, display on another, play sound on two others, and store wherever. This was always my pipe dream w/ that OS.
- rcarmo 9y agoI’ve been moving towards this for a couple of years. Right now a minimal Linux with Firefox and an RDP client will do 90% of what I need, and I would run the whole thing off a Raspberry Pi 3 if it supported dual monitors. Ironically, Windows Home also qualifies, and new low-end fanless PCs can drive 4K displays, so I’ll likely be running a setup like that by Summer, with zero local data except remote connection settings.