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I had to work with AIX and some AS400, HP-UX, SunOS/early Solaris, but mostly SINIX. Also held a Microsoft MCSE for WinNT 4 and IIS once. I abandoned Windows for personal use by about 1994, gotten fed-up/snapped because of the unreliability of finding network peers during private LAN-parties. While that instantly worked with some Linux booted from ONE 1.44MB floppy disk! OFC no gaming possible with that. But tha", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "NetBSD and my life (2005)"}, {"id": 785068192, "item_id": 49066762, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066762", "by": "mikewarot", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm hoping it can become my daily driver.", "excerpt": "According to their roadmap, Genode, based on a microkernel should have the start of a capabilities based front end on their Sculpt 26.8 release next month. 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From", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VitruvianOS \u2013 Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"}, {"id": 739654737, "item_id": 46228421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228421", "by": "tombert", "date": "2025-12-10", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I know about sculpt and Genode, and while those are interesting, not quite what I want.", "excerpt": "I love blog posts like this. You're not wrong in saying that the kernel is sort of this magical block box to most engineers (including me). I know how to use systemd and I know how to use bash and I know a few other things, but the kernel has always been \"the kernel\", and it's something I've never really tried to mess with. But you're right: ulimately the kernel is just a program. Yes, it's a big and important progra", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program"}, {"id": 736099969, "item_id": 46006248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006248", "by": "mikewarot", "date": "2025-11-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "like Genode, this approach yields something that is interesting, but can't be a daily driver for me.", "excerpt": ">It is not a conventional operating system, but contains composable components for creating custom operating systems that are specific to a particular task. Components are joined together using the Microkit tool. Unfortunately, like Genode, this approach yields something that is interesting, but can't be a daily driver for me. 8( Meanwhile, the US national security continues its downhill slide because we've chosen op", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Lions Operating System"}]}