20 Dec
2022
20 Dec
'22
9:29 p.m.
On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I mean, just a Unix, without all the cruft of a modern
Linux, but which
can actually take advantage of the resources of a modern machine. I don't
care about a desktop, or even a graphical environment, I don't care about
all the strange syscalls that are there to support particular databases, I
don't care much about being a virtualization host.
But then...what would the purpose of such a system? A mini-Unix just to run
vi(1) or text based game? If you want to run retro games there are much
better retro platforms for that, e.g. I do not need a Unix machine if I
want to run MS-DOS era games. I prefer period correct hardware and software.
If you want a modern Unix for production systems, then most of the real
world modern workloads are run in Kubernetes which is a very Linux
orientated technology anyway.
It appears to me there is really no need for such a modern mini-Unix system
outside of hard core O/S theorists community.
There are already a myriad of similar projects like Alan Cox's Fuzix OS
which can run e.g. on Amiga, but it will not play Centurion or Another
World anytime soon anyway.
--Andy