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I could see myself using Fuchsia IFF we get the GNU userland and full Posix (including all the optional parts that Linux currently implements) on top of it. Clo
by Asooka 7y ago
I could see myself using Fuchsia IFF we get the GNU userland and full Posix (including all the optional parts that Linux currently implements) on top of it. Closed drivers are a concession that doesn't sound too bad as long as the userland is proper GNU.
On the other hand, the mere existence of Fuchsia might lead to its best ideas being reimplemented in Linux itself, which would be a win as well.
- fithisux 7y agoOr we could wait for Hurd, and it is not a joke.
- ridiculous_fish 7y agoFuchsia doesn't implement dot dot to traverse to the parent directory. POSIX doesn't seem likely.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago> I could see myself using Fuchsia IFF we get the GNU userland and full Posix Then what the hell would be the point?
- breatheoften 7y agoClosed source drivers running in kernel address space ... realistically — by now we know that even open source drivers running in kernel space isn’t really that great an idea. MacOS/iOS are about to move the file system layer and any third party kernel extensions out of kernel space and into user space — it seems to me an inevitable necessity that the notion that “hardware interfaces need drivers in the kernel” is going to have to die ... the time has arrived where hardware components (other than cpu and memory) need to be viewed as user space programs that the kernel talks to when the kernel wants to...
- pjmlp 7y agoThen keep using a UNIX clone.