On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:47:41PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > Reinventing the wheel is a good idea only if you are > > absolutely, positively sure your new wheel will be at least ten times > > better than the current state–of–the–art wheel. > > That, or if you want to learn about how things work.
I’ve snipped the rest of your reply because I agree with almost everything
that you have said there, and I wanted to stress this point, which is IMHO
the crucial one.
In the end, it all boils down to a simple question: why are you working on
that?
If your aim is self–enrichment and plain simple joy of creation, then by
all means go ahead. Any platform would be OK for this, and the Ben has
the advantage of being an open one. Other than that, I don’t think the
MIPS instruction set has any inherent advantage with respect to, say, x86
when it comes to writing OSs — as far as I know, at least; I might be
wrong, in which case feel free to correct me.
If you want to make the case for Open Hardware, instead, I believe you
would be much better off working on what we already have, improving it to
the point where a regular person would want to use it.
Sure, Linux is not perfect; sure, chasing down obscure bugs in 10 years old
codebases doesn’t give nearly as much satisfaction as translating your
vision into code. But I think iOS, WebOS, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and Android have
clearly proven that UNIX is a viable fundation for building an innovative
and desiderable platform: perhaps that’s the lead we should follow.
Again, these are just my 0.2 ${CURRENCY}.
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Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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