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> Why should that not be possible to replicate today? What is missing is the user base! When Linus started his project, many people knew Unix in their professi
by pif 2y ago
> Why should that not be possible to replicate today?
What is missing is the user base! When Linus started his project, many people knew Unix in their professional life and were disappointed with what the market (M$) was proposing for the personal computer world.
Today, no such multitude is waiting for the next Linux.
Linux may not be perfect, but it's definitely good enough.
- flohofwoe 2y agoIdeally such a Rust kernel project would implement a drop-in-replacement for the Linux kernel, so that Linux distros could select between the original Linux kernel and the Rust 'imposter'. That way the users would already be there. It would just be a detail like GNOME vs KDE, X11 vs Wayland, or glibc vs MUSL.