I'm the author. It's neither. It's the closing 2 minutes of my FOSDEM talk this year, turned into an article. I've already linked to the talk and the other 3

I'm the author. It's neither. It's the closing 2 minutes of my FOSDEM talk this year, turned into an article. I've already linked to the talk and the other 3 articles I adapted from it in this comment thread, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928177 But you know what, in fairness, it's closer to "what the author thinks should be implemented". I reckon I might be able to have a pretty good stab at building a Linux-for-VMs like this, but it's nothing to do with my actual day job and it's not the sort of thing I do for fun. I am unlikely to try unless someone were paying me. (My actual "vanishingly little time outside of $DAYJOB" project at the moment concerns DOS and running DOS on modern-ish hardware. It's nothing to do with Linux at all.) I'm much more interested in trying to turn 9front into something that can run modern Linux apps, transparently, without making 9front much bigger or more complicated than it is and without the considerable maintenance overhead of emulating the moving target that is Linux. But that is something I am not even thinking about, for two reasons: [1] I definitely can't do it. [2] I am more interested in non-Unix-like OSes such as Oberon or Smalltalk. I gave a FOSDEM talk on that, too. https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_c... Here's an article version: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/starting_over_rebooting_the_os/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/starting_over_rebooti...