@dysfun if someone was really going for that level of effort though, it does seem like it'd be better directed in the capabilities-over-microkernel direction than any of the traditional style oses. haiku on redox when
@joe the problem with redox is i worry about hardware support. by my estimation, netbsd is the absolute lowest amount of hardware support that the average person will put up with.
no that's a lie, it's already worse than the average person will put up with.
@dysfun we simply need to make sure a five-year-old thinkpad is available to everyone who wants one
@joe that's apparently no guarantee of anything. my graphics card is like a decade old now and apparently when i've finished recompiling my kernel i can look forward to issues.
@dysfun but yeah it sucks because Linux pretty much just works on anything PC-shaped these days, even FreeBSD struggles by comparison, and everything else is nowhere close
another idle fancy project i had in mind was an nLite-style hack to pare first party Windows/OS X installs down to the bare minimum needed to host a hypervisor that can provide an easy-to-support HAL for alternative OSes to run under
@joe just found this yikes! on redox https://mastodon.minionflo.net/@tranquillity/117439671982595073