Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
So what he&#x27;s saying is: REmove all these layers because they&#x27;re bad, but add these OTHER layers because they&#x27;re good.<p>Thats how you make another AmigaOS, or Be, I&#x27;m sure Atari still has a group of a dozen folks playing with it, too.<p>The OS&#x27;s over the past 20 years haven&#x27;t shown much advancement because the advancement is happening higher up the stack. You CAN&#x27;T throw out the OS and still have ARkit. A Big Bloated Mature Moore&#x27;s Law needing OS is also stable, has hooks out the wazoo, AND A POPULATION USING IT.<p>4 guys coding in the dark on the bare metal just can&#x27;t build an OS anymore, it won&#x27;t have GPU access, it won&#x27;t have a solid TCP&#x2F;IP stack, it won&#x27;t have good USB support, or caching, or a dependable file system.<p>All of these things take a ton of time, and people, and money, and support (if you don&#x27;t have money, you need the volunteers)<p>Go build the next modern OS, I&#x27;ll see you in a couple of  years.<p>I don&#x27;t WANT this to sound harsh, I&#x27;m just bitter that I saw a TON of awesome, fledgling, fresh Operating systems fall by the wayside...I used BeOS, I WANTED to use BeOS, I&#x27;da LOVED it if they&#x27;d won out over NeXT (another awesome operating system...at least that survived.)<p>At a certain level, perhaps what he wants is to leverage ChromeOS...it&#x27;s &#x27;lightweight&#x27;...but by the time it has all the tchotchkes, it&#x27;ll be fat and bloated, too.