Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer

Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by ir193 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:36AM (#26074257)

There're so many screenshots of GUIs. But there is a heavy path dependence on customer-facing GUI systems. A starting over on OS seems more likely to happen on cloud OS. In any case, the question is do we really need the existing OS abstractions if we implement everything in managed languages?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/singula...

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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by lproven on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:41AM (#26078725)

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Ignore the slides. The slides are decoration.

Read the script, or listen to the talk. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-c7euvQaRaCL4hKCaE8VR...

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