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0 pointssnvzz4y ago0 comments

Because UNIX and its derivatives do suck. (huge TCB, drivers in the kernel, global namespaces, ambient security)

Therefore, it is sensible that other approaches are being considered.

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> Because UNIX and its derivatives do suck. (huge TCB, drivers in the kernel, global namespaces, ambient security)

This is a unix-like, and none of those are inherit to unix/derivatives; there are small unixen, there are microkernel unixen, containers are popular, and whatever security model you want, someone has hacked it onto an existing unix-family OS.

anthk4y ago

> Because UNIX and its derivatives do suck. (huge TCB, drivers in the kernel, global namespaces, ambient security)

GNU Hurd on drivers, you can use the ones from GNU/Linux I think. On global namespaces, I'd say Plan9/9front it's Unix 2.0.

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