Looks like we’re not the only ones thinking about new operating systems

I am not very impressed by all these modern OS-es. I want something better than what we have now but truthfully, the Linux kernel is amazing, and nothing else outside Linux / macOS / Windows comes even 10% close to device compatibility.

So if we get those new OS-es they’ll likely have very strict requirements for hardware generations which might also be a good thing – it depends.

I especially applaud the Rust-based OS efforts. But an OS stepping on IPFS? That is f**ked up; the IPFS organization fully cooperates with governments and even corporations and they take down files without much scrutiny. I wouldn’t want a state actor to remove my drivers from the net because they don’t like them for some reason.

The author of the article is writing a new OS:

The redshirt operating system is an experiment to build some kind of operating-system-like environment where executables are all in Wasm and are loaded from an IPFS-like decentralized network.