On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, Adam Thornton &lt;<a href="mailto:athornton@gmail.com" target="_blank">athornton@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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&#39;t care about a desktop, or even a graphical environment, I don&#39;t care about all the strange syscalls that are there to support particular databases, I don&#39;t care much about being a virtualization host.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>It appears to me there is really no need for such a modern mini-Unix system outside of hard core O/S theorists community.</div><div><br></div><div>There are already a myriad of similar projects like Alan Cox&#39;s Fuzix OS which can run e.g. on Amiga, but it will not play Centurion or Another World anytime soon anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>--Andy</div>