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steve918today at 4:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

I wonder if you think other OSes are any different?

TempleOS is the only thing that comes to mind that doesn't fit your description and it's not practically useful.

Any sufficiently large codebase is a mix of ideas and concepts implemented by different people with different priorities over a large timespan and if you can fit the entire thing in your head it's not very interesting or complex.


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IngoBlechschmidtoday at 4:53 PM

Qubes OS, the Linux distribution aspiring to offer a reasonably secure operating system, pioneering a "every app runs in a virtual machine" approach in the Linux laptop/desktop space, tracks this at the following issue:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2890

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naturalmovementtoday at 4:35 PM

The *BSDs, Mac, and Windows all keep critical code in the same tree as the OS.

Something like disk encryption would be immediately visible.

So you don't have this mess of 80 different distros with 60 different versions of systemd, 20 that don't use it, a million kernel versions and it's all thrown together in a Costco-sized trash bag and we call the output "Linux".

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