On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
I mean, just a Unix, without all the cruft of a modern Linux, but which can actually take advantage of the resources of a modern machine. I don't care about a desktop, or even a graphical environment, I don't care about all the strange syscalls that are there to support particular databases, I don't care much about being a virtualization host.
But then...what would the purpose of such a system? ...
It appears to me there is really no need for such a modern mini-Unix system outside of hard core O/S theorists community.
I'm not asking for a _practical_ Christmas gift, and certainly not one that will help me at work. As you say: at work I've got Kubernetes. I think it would be aesthetically pleasing and fun to use. Need has nothing to do with it.
Adam