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What if instead of writing the entire OS, a company were to pick up an existing “hobby” OS and refine it? For example any of the systems listed in Carmack’s po
by scared_together 1y ago
What if instead of writing the entire OS, a company were to pick up an existing “hobby” OS and refine it?
For example any of the systems listed in Carmack’s post. Or perhaps Serenity OS, RedoxOS, etc.
- dmurray 1y agoIn that case, why wouldn't they "just" fork Linux? Or 10-years-ago-Linux? The technical justification for Meta writing their own OS is that they'd get to make design decisions that suited them at a very deep level, not that they could do the work equivalent of contributing a few drivers to an existing choice.
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- monkeyelite 1y agoHow is that different than what they did? Meta stuff is on Linux. PlayStation and Nintendo on bsd, etc. If you mean exotic ones then the answer is the parts that are written are the easy parts and getting support for hardware and software is hard.
- ellis0n 1y agoACPU OS is also good for that https://www.acpul.org/blog/so-fast https://www.acpul.org/blog/so-fast