[boricj]

Extrapolating your position makes me think your ideal operating system wouldn't be an offshoot of the Linux kernel. It would be a general-purpose, fully asynchronous, MMU-less, zero-copy, single address space operating system secured through static program analysis, where the web browser and the NIC driver are but a couple of function calls away. Kinda like Microsoft Research's Singularity, but probably without the garbage collection.

Maybe one day every phone, tablet and laptop will run such an operating system, but I doubt that we'll have this as a viable alternative anytime soon. In the meantime, I think there's a reason why Google with Fuchsia OS and other companies are hedging their bets mainly through micro-kernel-style approaches for their next-gen general-purpose operating systems.

[dijit]

I love that you just run to the extremes.

It is an excellent way of getting me to dismiss you entirely.

My position is that: The best system is an improvement on the one we have, not some mythical potential solution that has unknown consequences.

Though I have a fondness for rump kernels.