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Tbh I'm happy to see any new OS thats not just yet another heavily unix-inspired clone. We desperately need more fresh ideas in the OS world
by zokier 2y ago
Tbh I'm happy to see any new OS thats not just yet another heavily unix-inspired clone. We desperately need more fresh ideas in the OS world
- makach 2y agovery interesting take. maybe with AI we can all get bespoke heuristic intelligent operating systems? these could be almost impossible to crack and exploit.
- bobajeff 2y agoI thought that NT was also a Unix system. In any case Windows as a whole isn't terribly different from a Unix system. Unlike say Smalltalk.
- markhahn 2y agoNo, NT was a re-engineering of the kernel, mostly with Mach-microkernel influence, but also with input from VMS. I think the point is that people who whinge (like here) about Unix are actually complaining about Unix filesystems and user-space. I'm not so sure they care about how exactly privileged execution is partitioned (or not).
- qsdf38100 2y agoNot sure if it's true, but I've heard than WNT is VMS + 1, so to speak, with each letter "incremented". I believe the team behind WNT had previously worked on VMS.
- userbinator 2y agoNot really a fresh idea; this is instead a Windows NT clone, but certainly something different from the usual *nix OS projects.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoGiven the execrable state of the Windows UI, I'd be excited to have modern Windows compatibility with a competent GUI on it. I'd be psyched if it looked like XP running with the "classic" UI. I switched to "classic" mode so automatically on every install that I'd forgotten the Fisher-Price default one... which was still better than the current shitshow.