Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 5th Nov 2009 21:05 UTC
There's no right way to do it, only ideas that are better than others in certain situations. But if you had the opportunity to head up the design of a new OS, one to Put Things Right, one that could be radical enough to varnish out those UI/X bumps that have clung on for years, but practical enough to be used every day, what would you design? How would you handle application management? What about file types and compatibility? Where would you cherry pick the best bits from other OSes and where would you throw away tradition? I've tackled this challenge for myself and present (an unfinished idea): KrocOS (warning: HTML5 site, will display without CSS in IE/older browsers). OSnews Asks: What would make your perfect OS?
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2005-11-02
You ignored his question. He asked how a stable ABI would kill the kernel, not reduce the number of open source drivers. Oddly enough, Microsoft is able to keep advancing their kernel, despite the fact that their ABI is relatively stable. "
And you cannot see how the Linux kernel will be a non-starter if its drivers cannot be legally distributed with it? Assuming some kind of shim ala nvidia is used to bypass the GPL problem you still have to have agreements between each and every distribution vendor and each and every hardware vendor, or open distribution offers from the hardware vendors. This is an untenable situation and will lead to a decline in the usefulness of Linux.