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by coldtea
2634 days ago
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>What used to be a UNIX clone decades ago is now a testbed of all new technologies you can imagine in an operating system. But most of them are still copies of FreeBSD, Solaris, and Plan9 stuff. Something particularly innovative in Linux? |
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> Open source often does create ecosystems that encourage many small-scale innovations, but while bolder innovations do widely exist at the early experimental stages, they often fail to be refined to the point of usefulness in large-scale adoption.
You can argue that, for example, KVM is a clone of something else. However, it's because of not stopping at an early stage KVM is now a mature and insanely popular technology.