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scared_together ◴[] No.45066996[source]
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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1. monkeyelite ◴[] No.45072347[source]
How is that different than what they did? Meta stuff is on Linux. PlayStation and Nintendo on bsd, etc.

If you mean exotic ones then the answer is the parts that are written are the easy parts and getting support for hardware and software is hard.