Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:05PM
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> I could see myself using Fuchsia IFF we get the GNU userland and full Posix
Then what the hell would be the point?
Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by breatheoften on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:40PM
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Closed source drivers running in kernel address space ... realistically — by now we know that even open source drivers running in kernel space isn’t really that great an idea. MacOS/iOS are about to move the file system layer and any third party kernel extensions out of kernel space and into user space — it seems to me an inevitable necessity that the notion that “hardware interfaces need drivers in the kernel” is going to have to die ... the time has arrived where hardware components (other than cpu and memory) need to be viewed as user space programs that the kernel talks to when the kernel wants to...
Or we could wait for Hurd, and it is not a joke.
Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by ridiculous_fish on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:06PM
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Fuchsia doesn't implement dot dot to traverse to the parent directory. POSIX doesn't seem likely.
On the other hand, the mere existence of Fuchsia might lead to its best ideas being reimplemented in Linux itself, which would be a win as well.