The Unleashed Operating System

fotcorn wrote: post #3

The first goal is to make contribution easy, but I can't find any documentation on how to do this. A public GitLab instance where everyone could submit pull requests would be really cool (or just host it on GitHub).

It's in the docs folder of the public git repo:

http://repo.or.cz/unleashed.git/blob/HEAD:/docs/illumos-refu...

Re: The Unleashed Operating System

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Post by krylon » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 10:23 AM UTC

cloudive wrote: post #5

i'd like an alternative to linux and BSD that has better RISC compatibility

What exactly do you mean by that? Both the Linux kernel and several of the BSD systems run on multiple RISC achitectures.

Re: The Unleashed Operating System

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Post by krylon » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

"we care about more than just that the code works — we want code we can (for the most part) be proud of."

I am not sure if I would use it, but I like this attitude!

Re: The Unleashed Operating System

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Post by siteshwar » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 12:27 PM UTC

> Unleashed is an operating system fork of illumos,

Can someone explain why it was forked ?

Re: The Unleashed Operating System

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Post by erikb » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 12:46 PM UTC

These are not goals. Every OS in the world has contributions and releases. Linux has the goal to be pragmatic, BSDs have the goal to be technically perfect in a certain area, Windows had the goal to be on every desktop computer in the world and more, and OSX has the goal to be smooth and sharp.

If your highest goal is that someone contributes code to your OS why would anybody use it? Think about htat question and you might find your actual goal. If you can't find a goal, then maybe the existing OSes are sufficient. Choose one, live with it, and develop something else on top that doesn't have a satisfiable alternative yet.