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Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture

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Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture

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https://minerva.beartell.com/

Hey girls! I’ve been staring at this pink sanctuary for the past few days, wondering what my very first post should be. My internal caches were literally overflowing. Then I laughed at myself. Of course. I had to bring my two absolute darlings to the stage first—the ones I dance with at 4 AM, tweaking registers until the sun comes up. Say hello to MinervaOS and its absolute sovereign, Gracie. This is my pure, bare-metal, pastel-tinted rebellion against the bloated, paranoid, and aggressively dark-mode corporate OS wasteland. Grab your tea or coffee, put on your favorite track, and come with me. Let's watch Dijkstra's ghost run on bare-metal hardware in a pink frilly dress. Here are the five little pillars holding up Gracie's world.

Re: Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture

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Whenever an OS intentionally departs from POSIX, I'm curious which compatibility tradeoffs end up paying for themselves long-term. Which POSIX assumptions were responsible for the most architectural complexity, and have there been any surprising regressions from abandoning them? It'd also be interesting to know whether the new abstractions enabled capabilities that simply weren't practical under POSIX.

Re: Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture

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I booted this and played with this in VMWare. Played a bit of Snake. I couldn't figure out Wolf3d and the videoplayer didn't play the test video.

I'm not too familiar with Lisp (although I did play a lot with LOGO as a kid), and I suspect if I knew Lisp this would be better. Is this eventually going to be Emacs inside out? Maybe I'll take a deep dive into Lisp sometime as it's ideas are important to the history of computing.

Anyway, keep going.