On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 10:12 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>


> My thought for the day and question for the group is... It seems that the
> options for a free operating system (free as in freedom) are becoming ever
> more limited - Microsoft, this week, announced that their Edge update will
> remove Edge Legacy and IE while doing the update - nuts; Mac's desktop is
> turning into IOS - ew, ick; and Linux is wild west meets dictatorship and
> major corporations are moving in to set their direction (Microsoft, Oracle,
> IBM, etc.). FreeBSD we've beat to death over the last couple of weeks, so
> I'll leave it out of the mix for now. What in our unix past speaks to the
> current circumstance and what do those of you who lived those events see as
> possibilities for the next revolution - and, will unix be part of it?
>
> And a bonus question, why, oh why, can't we have a contained kernel that
> provides minimal functionality (dare I say microkernel), that is securable,
> and layers above it that other stuff (everything else) can run on with
> auditing and suchlike for traceability?
>

I love Linux, especially Debian lately.

But I also have high hopes for Redox OS, and may switch someday:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox_(operating_system)
https://www.theregister.com/2019/11/29/after_four_years_rusty_os_nearly_selfhosting/