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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by naasking on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:10AM (#28378370)
> but you’d never need to do that.

Why not? Linux has plenty of core design flaws that can't be solved without starting from scratch.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by bluGill on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:26AM (#28379521)
Then start with something else. There are dozens of operating systems out that there make an attempt to be better (for some definition of better), choose one and work with it. Starting from scratch means you spend years doing all the things they all get right before you can work on the interesting parts.
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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by wallscratch on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:00AM (#28378722)
I’d be curious to hear some examples.
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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by naasking on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:47AM (#28379158)
As but one example, how are you going to conduct security research using an microkernel or exokernel architecture on Linux?
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