What if instead of writing the entire OS, a company were to pick up an existing “hobby” OS and refine it?
For example any of the systems listed in Carmack’s post. Or perhaps Serenity OS, RedoxOS, etc.
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For example any of the systems listed in Carmack’s post. Or perhaps Serenity OS, RedoxOS, etc.
The technical justification for Meta writing their own OS is that they'd get to make design decisions that suited them at a very deep level, not that they could do the work equivalent of contributing a few drivers to an existing choice.