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Probably not, at least on the desktop, good luck getting drivers working when you see the state of Linux / BSD after 20 years and thousands of engineers that wo
by Thaxll 8y ago
Probably not, at least on the desktop, good luck getting drivers working when you see the state of Linux / BSD after 20 years and thousands of engineers that worked on them. It's 2019 and we still have issues on Linux that were fixed in Windows XP era.
Also I think people are blinded by that "rust safety" thing for an OS, it doesn't really matter, Redox that is written in Rust had a challenge a year ago about breaking it, it took a few minutes for someone to kernel panic with bad arguments in a user space CLI, so how long do you think it's going to take to have something as secure / stable as Linux for Redox, 10 / 15 years and at the same time you need all the features / drivers to have a usable OS, just forget about it. The only way you can have a "successful" OS nowdays is to target a very specific niche / usecase.
- tracker1 8y agoGiven the amount of software that runs on servers with a limited footprint need, or orchestrating virtual machines or containers running similar/other software I wouldn't count out the potential. It won't be a desktop application anytime soon, but there is room for the OS is the Service type of OS.