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What's the point at all if you're just trying to get another linux?
by Sophistifunk 5y ago
What's the point at all if you're just trying to get another linux?
- spicybright 5y agoTo run useful software.
- dash2 5y agoI think the question is "how is this better or different than Linux or Windows", which it aims to replace? What are its design choices? Does it introduce any new concepts? For an example, see https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts
- HKH2 5y agoWhat's the point of rewriting the whole stack?
- deaddodo 5y agoThere's a difference between making a Unix-compatible/Unix-like (a la Redox, Minix, Linux, the BSDs, macOS, etc) and having POSIX-compatibility + interfaces (a la Haiku, Serenity, Windows + Cygwin or WSL, etc). One is just reinventing the wheel, even if it means "having useful software"; the other is attempting something new while offering tools to make porting useful OSS simpler.
- HKH2 5y agoAs far as I see, Windows has always been different for the sake of it; it is a prime example of reinventing the wheel. What makes it good is its market share means things are almost always guaranteed to run on it, otherwise it is terrible and always has been since MS-DOS. If it didn't have "useful software", what else would it have going for it?
- nerdponx 5y agoI'm not asking for another Linux, just basic hardware support and a set of programs that I don't have to learn entirely from scratch.