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Re:Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch by olliej on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:25PM (#29952678)
Secure systems are lightweight kernels with thin UI layers, that’s part of how surface reduction is accomplished.

And yeah, it’s not going to have real world adoption soon. Neither did linux.

Every non-commercial OS starts out as a labour of love.

Good luck to them :)

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Re:Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch by smoldesu on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:34PM (#29952720)
> Every non-commercial OS starts out as a labour of love.

Tell that to Andrew Tanenbaum

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Re:Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch by pjmlp on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:59AM (#29954211)
I think he does love his work.
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