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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by snvzz on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:15PM (#31200607)
Because UNIX and its derivatives do suck. (huge TCB, drivers in the kernel, global namespaces, ambient security)

Therefore, it is sensible that other approaches are being considered.

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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:17AM (#31201997)
> Because UNIX and its derivatives do suck. (huge TCB, drivers in the kernel, global namespaces, ambient security)

This is a unix-like, and none of those are inherit to unix/derivatives; there are small unixen, there are microkernel unixen, containers are popular, and whatever security model you want, someone has hacked it onto an existing unix-family OS.

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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by anthk on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:17AM (#31205445)
> Because UNIX and its derivatives do suck. (huge TCB, drivers in the kernel, global namespaces, ambient security)

GNU Hurd on drivers, you can use the ones from GNU/Linux I think. On global namespaces, I'd say Plan9/9front it's Unix 2.0.

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