XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 20/09/2024 01:23, clinker wrote:   
   > Not to derail this thread, which is a good one, but it is possible an   
   > operating system will be developed that threaten both Linux and Windows   
   > existence as it is known today.   
   >   
   most things are *possible*   
      
   > OS2 had a good run for example. It is still alive and well in some   
   > proprietary industrial equipment because it is impervious to hacks as no   
   > one remembers it.   
      
   DOS is still used in a lot of industrial kit ...When all you want is to   
   load a single tasked application that talks to custom hardware...   
      
   There is evidence that Linux itself is getting bloated, and in need of   
   the same 'back to basics' approach that Linus dud 30 years ago.   
      
   There is certainly space for something like FreeRTOS to make headway in   
   the embedded space.   
      
   But the thing is, again from my perspective, as a user, not a developer   
   of operating systems, is that what you want - and IBM, Red Hat etc   
   understand this - is a reliable secure bug free platform on which to   
   write applications that is easily ported to whatever hardware is available.   
      
   And in that context 30 years of development beats a new kid on the block   
   every day.   
   The reason we don't like Windows is because it costs money at every   
   turn, and is there to screw the last red cent out of its users. A new   
   windows would flop. Indeed the old windows is flopping.   
      
   It shows all the characteristics  of a cash cow company - everything is   
   monetized.   
      
   Linux is like C. It has its issues, but everyone understands them   
   everyone can program in it and it works well enough. And it doesn't need   
   licenses to be paid to use it.   
      
   And sometimes its easier to fix bugs in it than to  rewrite it in Rust etc.   
      
   --   
   For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the   
   very definition of slavery.   
      
   Jonathan Swift   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)