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Bare Metal Vi, Boot into Vi Without an OS

• jamesy0ung 4y ago
  Could you use something like circle and port vim to raspberry pi baremetal?
• trollied 4y ago
  Posted yesterday too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671434
  • wk_end 4y ago
    Another larger thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662571
• acapybara 4y ago
  I don't see much of the point of doing this with a text editor, but I can imagine some other applications where it'd be useful to dedicate 100% of the system resources to a single application. Gaming, for example. I wonder how hard it would be to boot directly to a wine/proton + graphics & I/O drivers + game environment. Essentially turn a computer into a console.
  • taf2 4y ago
    I was thinking redis would be excellent for this usecase
    • imglorp 4y ago
      Wait till they find out about unikernels!
      • bdg 4y ago
        It's a shame RumpKernel didn't rach escape velocity. It was really cool to be able to take anything and make it a unikern.
  • spicybright 4y ago
    And then you get a hard drive for each game and use them like nintendo carts!
  • johnday 4y ago
    Most games make so much use of OS-level features (especially Windows APIs and their analogues under Wine/Proton) that a minimal system for running a game wouldn't be that much slimmer than an OS. All you would really drop would be the window manager - and you can start X directly with a single application on Linux anyway.
  • haunter 4y ago
    Bare metal car dashboard for example running on RBPis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH9lp-Nms-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH9lp-Nms-o