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Won't be big and professional like GNU

• hnlmorg 1y ago
  Different era then. Your options were basically just: - GNU: which didn't have a kernel - BSD: which had massive question marks over ownership - Minix: which wasn't free back then - or a commercial Unix These days you have a dozen BSDs, Darwin, several OpenSolaris forks, hundreds of Linux distros as well as non-commercial licenses for many commercial Unixes. Minix is free. Free reimplementations of BeOS too. And that's before you count the plethora of free non-POSIX systems like Plan 9, ReactOS, and so on and so forth. And, ironically, there's now less of a need for competition in this space because web engines have replaced OS kernels for a lot of common use cases and WASM is fast becoming the new ABI. To be clear, I'm not saying this project has no merit. Nor am I saying there is zero chance this project might evolve into something big. I'm just saying that quoting Linus like you have is extremely simplistic.
  • gjvc 1y ago
    Your comment goes on and on about different variants but fails to see the germ of a good idea. Sorry to say.
    • hnlmorg 1y ago
      Oh I see the good idea. I also read their readme, which is how i know it's not yet ready to work as a file server ;)
      • gjvc 1y ago
        >Oh I see the good idea. I also read their readme, which is how i know it's not yet ready to work as a file server ;) this is called "judging a book by its cover"
        • hnlmorg 1y ago
          > this is called "judging a book by its cover" So you think they're lying about not having implemented block devices nor a network stack...? Or are you suggesting that NFS doesn't need network nor file system support?
          • gjvc 1y ago
            Please calm down.