Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:35:35 -0000

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:32:16 -0000, Jonathan Slark
<jonathan.slark_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Has the suckless community considered starting an operating system from
> scratch?
>
> Linux/BSD etc suck by default as they are evolutions of software from
> the 1970s and have all the legacy baggage that comes with that. Even
> Plan 9 dates back to the 1980s.
>
> The only new OS's that seem to be in development are based on existing
> software: Haiku, ReactOS etc.
>
...and GNU Hurd, Singularity, etc.

All the real fun seems to happen in L4, but Plan9 is alive and kicking
softly.

-- 
-,Bjartur
Received on Sat Feb 11 2012 - 22:35:35 CET

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