Winding down my Debian involvement (2019)
Not strictly related, but I was thinking about this the other day: how long will it be before some group or company creates a truly new operating system that takes off?<p>I mean, the windows kernel is going on 20 years old. the Mac OS kernel is based on unix, which is even older. Linux is also based on unix. As are Android and ios.<p>The more we add to these operating systems, the harder it becomes to walk away from them because we have so much invested in them.<p>Does this mean that in 200 years we'll still be using the descendants of these early operating systems? Under what circumstances would someone decide to start something truly new? And what would it take to ever reach a feature parity with the existing options?<p>And to be clear, I'm not saying there's a reason to walk away from these. I'm not an operating system programmer, I don't even really know that much about it. I'm just wondering if it will always make sense to just keep adding to what we already have.