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What security risk exists in blitting together memory buffers and doing some alpha blending? Because that's all compositing is. And Linux, Windows and all the other popular OSes al…

Why? Faulty drivers shouldn't be restarted. I never understood that argument in favor of microkernels.

Why? It can be fully automated just like dynamic module download and loading are. Incremental compilation means you don't have to recompile everything just compile the new driver a…

That's going to tentatively be handled in kernel unless there good reason to do otherwise. The idea is to expose low level hardware interfaces across the board and this seemed to b…

Even a fully loaded kernel with loads of drivers isn't that big. And not all of it has to be resident in memory at all times. Code in general is miniscule compared to data. And mos…

Thanks. And there isn't much of a permanent team so far so if anyone wants to help then I'd be happy to hear from them on our Discord, Matrix or by email at charlotte-os@outlook.co…

Yep. Everyone in the OSDev community knows about it. RIP Terry.

Like those sports cars where you need a fingerprint to start it and some thieves in a third world country cut off the owner's finger to steal the car.

Thanks and that was one of my main motivators for starting this. There just arent any options out there that aren't POSIX or Windows. I guess there's Haiku but even that's based on…

How else would you describe a system that isnt modelled after one that was designed in the 60s like almost all the ones in common use today are? Your complaint is more pointless th…

Plan 9 is novel compared to Unix which almost every OS in common use mimics. But the reference to Plan 9 was more as a nod to its namespace and suitability for distributed computin…

They shouldn't have to. OS interfaces including commandline ones should be user oriented not bogged down by Unix dogma that was created wwhencomputerss used physical text terminals…

Linux is a big corp OS. Look at who the biggest contributors are and who funds the Linux foundation, ultimately paying Linus and friends' salaries.

If there's enough demand for dynamic kernel modules they can be added later. That's not a feature that you have to build ypur whole kernel around from that start. Linux definitely …

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Incremental compilation makes that a lot less heavyweight than you would think and the idea is to automate the process so the average non-technical user doesn't need to know or car…

OP here. The plan is to hand out panes which are just memory buffers to which applications write pixel data as they would on a framebuffer then when the kernel goes to actually ref…

There's a note in the repo that clarifies the meaning of the GPLv3 regarding the use of combining covered works with proprietary libraries when the resulting combined work is never…

The only thing political about this project so far is that I insist on it being free software and also free from tivoization. Well that and not going to insane lengths to support h…

I don't know anything about SerenityOS so I can't really say but if you have any more specific questions I'd be happy to answer them.

Why choose one when combining both is better?

Being maintainable comes down to code quality, comments, and documentation. These are thing that I really want to emphasize for this project but for now I'm just one guy and it's v…

OP here, it's not mucking around with the license just making sure people know how the GPLv3 works. You are not required to provide source code for the combined work unless it is c…