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by microtonal 2585 days ago
New operating systems today tend to be just ways of reimplementing Unix. If they have a novel architecture -- and some do -- the first thing to build is the Unix emulation layer.

How can operating systems research be relevant when the resulting operating systems are all indistinguishable?

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Linux is the hot new thing... but it's just another Unix.

Although they are rooted in FP notions of purity and immutability, I would say that NixOS and Guix try to fundamentally change operating systems.