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Re:Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist by nonameiguess on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:32AM (#26874396)
It's not just security. There's incompatible dependencies. Virtualization allows you to run Windows and Linux on the same server, 40 different C libraries with potentially incompatible ABIs, across X time zones and Y locales, and they'll all work.

You can provide the same level of replication and separation of dependencies in an OS, but at a certain point you're just creating the same thing as a hypervisor and calling it an OS and the distinction becomes academic.

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Re:Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist by mikewarot on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:10PM (#26876589)
I think that eventually every OS will converge on the same API, for now there's APE - Actually Portable Executables from the Cosmopolitan C library to get one code base working everywhere without a ton of ifdefs.
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