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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 re

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 3y ago
I was thinking redis would be excellent for this usecase
- imglorp 3y ago
  Wait till they find out about unikernels!
  - bdg 3y 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 3y ago
And then you get a hard drive for each game and use them like nintendo carts!
johnday 3y 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 3y 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