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Any new operating system has to answer the question “why? what will this do that Linux can’t?”. If there’s a good answer to that, sure build it, but Linux is i

Any new operating system has to answer the question “why? what will this do that Linux can’t?”. If there’s a good answer to that, sure build it, but Linux is incredibly flexible, powerful, honed, compatible and other things. I see the romance in bringing a historic operating system into the future but without good reason there’s little point.

hakfoo 2y ago
One aspect might be "avoiding getting stuck in local maxima". Starting with a "parallel universe" like RiscOS, FreeDOS, or the numerous Amiga-necromancy projects might make it easier to get to some clever idea that we wouldn't easily find starting from the assumptions modern Linux systems impose.