It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by SilverRed on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:29AM (#28376965)

I'm increasingly seeing the value of Apple style products where almost every part of the device from the hardware, to firmware, to OS, to UI is all from the same company.

The whole combined experience just makes things run so smoothly and allows security issues to be patched since Apple has the resources that maintain each part internally.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by pas on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:29AM (#28378148)

Yeah, of course that works, for a while at least. Also developed in the open, patches are welcome, you can update your own NIC/GPU/Wifi-dongle components would work too. Unfortunately the whole industry (Apple as one of the main culprits) is quite hostile to anything like that.

Though maybe we'll have a RedHat of hardware someday.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by darkwater on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:01AM (#28378331)

Yeah, and as a side-effect you have to obey your one true lord.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by foxpurple on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:03PM (#28387099)

Vs relying on 100 chip vendors who do not give two shits about you once the product is out the door.

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