Yeah, that's what I've always thought was interesting about microkernels; the ability to have a lot more stuff in user space always seemed like the obvious "correct" direction to me.

I played with RedoxOS a bit in a virtual machine a few years ago [1], and it seemed cool, so maybe that can be the logical successor to something like Hurd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedoxOS

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eadmund 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> I played with RedoxOS a bit in a virtual machine a few years ago, and it seemed cool, so maybe that can be the logical successor to something like Hurd.

A problem with RedoxOS is that it is not GPLed: contributors have no assurance that they and others will be able to use software built with their contributions.

Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook all have plenty of money to pay engineers; they don’t need my contributions for free.

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pjmlp 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which is how most drivers now work across macOS, Windows and Android/Linux.

Unfortunely other UNIX clones rather keep going as "things were always done around here"

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dietr1ch 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, I thought that was going to die shortly after Jeremy moved to System76, but it didn't,

- https://www.redox-os.org/news/

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cmrdporcupine 4 days ago | parent [-]

Project seems quite healthy to me. I was intending on trying it over the weekend but dragged into chores instead.

I think there's some spark there.

	▲	goku12 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Their matrix community (spaces) sees a healthy level of discussions. Even those related to project governance. The project is very much alive. And I believe that they're also porting the COSMIC desktop to Redox.