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A review of common sense. Stop using things built on top of junk. 30 years and still working on building an OS, great we'll be doing this for the next 100 years
by madeel 8y ago
A review of common sense. Stop using things built on top of junk. 30 years and still working on building an OS, great we'll be doing this for the next 100 years as well.
- taeric 8y agoWhat? Doesn't that condemn all OS offerings? And progress?
- simion314 8y agoWhat OS are you using and what projects are you working on?
- madeel 8y agoFreeBSD
- simion314 8y agoSo I assume then that FreeBSD has the perfect architecture, uses the perfect language and it's bug tracker is still empty waiting for the first bug to be opened?
- madeel 8y agoMore importantly the assumptions can be made about the tech. design and implementation and it's stability/availability across x. amount of time. On the perfect part, I am not intellectually competent to answer that ...
- bovermyer 8y agoIf I understand correctly, you just said that any operating system that's still under development thirty years after its inception is garbage. Please clarify, because I can't believe that that's what you actually mean.
- madeel 8y agoHow long can you hammer on the nail and expect that it's going somewhere. There needs to be wholesome approach to software development. Kernel is the not the only cure to OS problems. We need to take into consideration the stability of what we build on top of the kernel not just the kernel itself. API stability across kernel + drivers + user land must not show signs of UFO.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI hate to break it to you but computers are pretty much junk all the way down to the silicon level at this point. Ho hum.
- madeel 8y agoFreeBSD builds on the common sense. Using the latest ideas true to it's motto serving the community. While try Linux, where is the peg of idealism in it. GPL 2/3/Affero. What substantial progress has that given us, except fancy technical names. Apparently I can't reply for the honest checkmark in the HN system tells me “You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.” -1 => Freedom of expression +1 => Freedom of speech
- yellowapple 8y ago"Stop using things built on top of junk" Indeed; that's why I stopped using Windows :)
- madeel 8y agodid u mean Linux :)