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What I hate most about PCs is that there's so much hardware that needs drivers. At a minimum, you need a driver for each type of network card there is. If all P
by read 13y ago
What I hate most about PCs is that there's so much hardware that needs drivers. At a minimum, you need a driver for each type of network card there is. If all PCs disappeared and were replaced by something like the Raspberry Pi, then writing an OS would suddenly become a more reachable goal. It would make it easier for different kinds of OSs to be developed.
There's a specific kind of OS I'd like to have. But I'm erasing my description about it from this comment, because announcing your goals makes it less likely you'll achieve them[1].
In the end I want less software complexity. Having less hardware can lead to having less software.
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496923
- khitchdee 13y agoI guess what you're saying is instead of a one size fits all solution where you have one huge OS that supports a variety of different hardware configurations, if you broke down your software-hardware space into some standardized hardware configurations (like the Rasberry Pi) then it would be easier to build a much simpler OS for each such configuration.