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Why do we need Krita when we have GIMP? Because every once in a while, it‘s easier to free yourself from the shackles of architectural decisions that were made

Why do we need Krita when we have GIMP? Because every once in a while, it‘s easier to free yourself from the shackles of architectural decisions that were made because of the hardware and constraints of their time that are obsolete now but are supported for legacy reasons. A security model that is designed from scratch into such a deep OS concern as with Fuchsia is one of the aspects that would be next to impossible to bolt onto such a conplex project such as Linux or BSD. I‘m not saying it will play out, but it certainly brings a wave of fresh and radical new ideas into open source operating systems I haven‘t seen since the times of BeOS and Plan 9.

bayindirh 6y ago
For me, OS research is always good. Experimenting from ground up is even better. But Minix, the hero of the Microkernel research, became the guardian of Intel systems and preventer of tinkering and exploration. Can we certainly say that Fuschia will be Free and mild natured like BSD and Linux or will it become another silent "hard-layer" like Minix? GP (and I) certainly fear about the latter. Given Google's transformation to Modern day Microsoft of the 90s, it's not too far-fetched it seems.
- sterlind 6y ago
  why did Intel pick Minix, anyway? Licensing or something?
  - bayindirh 6y ago
    Partly license, partly memory footprint it seems. Even Tenenbaum doesn't know exactly why [0]. [0]: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
trasz 6y ago
FreeBSD has supported capability-based security model for a decade now: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?capsicum https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?capsicum.