if linux goes slop we will so regret having put all of our eggs in the same basket lol
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8@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev Really not a problem.
There's already a bunch of alternative kernel projects like GNU Hurd, FreeBSD, Illumos, Zircon, or even Plan 9, etc. that are all waiting on the sideline like;
"I can't wait for Linux to collapse so MY kernel can rise from the ashes"
@SuperDicq Plan 9 is a research OS from the 90s that does not support GPUs or modern web browsers; GNU Hurd only just recently got 64 bit cpu support; Zircon is an embedded kernel by a slop megacorp famous for dropping projects.
Of these, only FreeBSD is a serious alternative, and perhaps Illumos but I don't know much about it.
Of these, only FreeBSD is a serious alternative, and perhaps Illumos but I don't know much about it.
@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev Research and hobby projects can very quickly into serious projects when the demand is there.
Don't forget that Linux also started out as a hobby kernel.
@SuperDicq that was more than 35 years ago, we're not in this age anymore. the landscape had already changed drastically enough just 10 years after linux was started for experts to consider OS dev a dead field https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html
this was 25 years ago and the situation has only gotten worse.
there is an insane amount of standards and hardware an operating system needs to support to be realistically viable, and the reason that linux has these things is because it started at an age where the field was simply different and then was developed continuously with huge amounts of enterprise and hobby support for decades into what it is today.
no, this is not something a competent hacker can pull out of their ass anymore.
this was 25 years ago and the situation has only gotten worse.
there is an insane amount of standards and hardware an operating system needs to support to be realistically viable, and the reason that linux has these things is because it started at an age where the field was simply different and then was developed continuously with huge amounts of enterprise and hobby support for decades into what it is today.
no, this is not something a competent hacker can pull out of their ass anymore.
no, this is not something a competent hacker can pull out of their ass anymore.TempleOS works on every 64 bit PC flawlessly.
@SuperDicq @lizzy no it doesn't, it was developed by its creator in vmware precisely because the only machine it was tested on was his desktop, and his desktop broke.
I have run it on a couple laptops successfully but it's not guaranteed to run anywhere but vmware
I have run it on a couple laptops successfully but it's not guaranteed to run anywhere but vmware
@sun@shitposter.world @lizzy@social.vlhl.dev TempleOS is perfect and if it doesn't work it is clearly your hardware that is wrong.
@SuperDicq @lizzy I...actually cannot argue against that.
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