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All these “alternative” OSes are nothing more than toy’s because generally it seems the devs working on them have no desire whatsoever to make them run on bare
by resuresu 4y ago
All these “alternative” OSes are nothing more than toy’s because generally it seems the devs working on them have no desire whatsoever to make them run on bare metal. Just a toy that boots up in a VM completely dependent upon a host OS.
- simongr3dal 4y agoI just think that people generally have pretty high expectations of OSes these days. So the job of getting it to run on actual hardware, and getting it to run on lots of hardware is just kicked down the road until the OS is a lot more mature.
- kristoff_it 4y agoThere are plenty of examples of people running Serenity on physical hardware. It probably doesn't support a fraction of the HW that Linux supports, but still.
- paddim8 4y agoI don't think Serenity has a set purpose. No one is going around calling it a viable alternative to Linux. That's ok though. In the future, who knows what will happen to it. There is no need for it to have good support for baremetal at this stage.
- pjmlp 4y agoAll these alternative OSes are people having fun, they don't have any agenda to take over the computing world. So in a sense, yes, they are toys for grown ups.