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It would let you try the OS in the browser.
Can it provide any real-time guarantees? The main reason why I would change OS on the Raspberry Pi 3 is to get real-time behavior.
Not at the moment, but our interrupt overhead and number of background tasks is so low it's something we're thinking about. Is there a specific scenario you're trying to enable?
It'd be interesting to see more information about licensing for Minoca, as I could see it as an interesting alternative for small projects on the RaspberryPI.
It's not that I don't like seeing new kernels and new ideas. I'm just not seeing a path to profitability for something like this (but I thought Dropbox was a bad idea, so I may be stupid).
So, what's the market niche for this that isn't better served by an Open Source platform?
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Just a quick review of the site - the "Product" page - shows a lite version and a pro. Lite has debugging symbols built in that can't be stripped. It is compiled at a lower optimization level than pro. It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited Not sure what that means though, I didn't dig very far. Found the above here: http://www.minocacorp.com/product/ - scroll down a bit to find the product com…
(emphasis mine): > It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited In the software world I'd consider anything less than BSD/MIT licensed source code limited.
Or GPL. Any free license would be acceptable.
I suspect novel proprietary kernels are a very difficult business niche. I'm unaware of any new commercially viable OS kernel that has come along in the past decade...maybe even longer. Linux (and to a lesser degree, BSD) seem to have a very firm lock on the market, from quite small devices on up to very large ones. Certainly, there's still room at the very bottom (devices smaller than RPi) and at the very top (what…
It looks like this is a closed binary blob. Disappointing, since I'm curious to see what exactly it does differently. I'm also not entirely sure why I would want to use this over Linux, from reading the website.
What's the hardware compatibility like? If you're open to it, there is a market for something that will boot with the bare minimum non-specialized generic drivers on all hardware into a shell or some form of UI.
Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
We're hoping it can be, but we're also considering open sourcing it.
I suspect novel proprietary kernels are a very difficult business niche. I'm unaware of any new commercially viable OS kernel that has come along in the past decade...maybe even longer. Linux (and to a lesser degree, BSD) seem to have a very firm lock on the market, from quite small devices on up to very large ones. Certainly, there's still room at the very bottom (devices smaller than RPi) and at the very top (what…