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by spaintech 650 days ago
Been following this development here for some time… many threads already provide for some great comments on the idea.

I find it both interesting and exciting to see a new os for the could era. I do feel like the DBOS is still not singular, PICK ( already mentioned) but also mentioned in other thread where Taurus OS and the Plant 9 project, which also leverages a database on a file system as a core for system resource management.

In my own thinking of a cloud OS, and particularly considering the focus on server-less applications as mentioned in the article, I have been inspired by Forth’s Dictionary data structure as a lightweight data structure concept where the core state and application contexts are managed through modular dictionaries, each with isolated and secure contexts. OS has a Core Dictiory, and each application is contained with in it’s own namespace dictionary… ect.

Message passing between applications could be efficiently handled using a tagging/queue system, potentially extending to RDMA for distributed environments. This could offer a lightweight, performance-optimized alternative current OS options, particularly in resource-constrained or highly distributed systems for server-less infrastructures.