I mean, if it were for novelty and “cleverness” then it would be Plan-9 (or BeOS) the one who shoulda take over. At the end of the day both Linux.and Minix are both following the UNIX model which even at that time it already was “obsolete”. But reality is often more pragmatic
More processing power means new paradigms are less likely to be uncovered, I think. The deficiencies of current designs are obscured, and maybe moot, due to the raw power the processors. There isn’t any real pressure to improve kernel design.
All of the big current kernels (NT, Linux, XNU) are rooted in the i386 era. There’s certainly been a lot of changes in all of them but I don’t know if any have been completely re-architected.
Might have to wait for some kind of completely new processor before we see completely new kernels.
I mean, if it were for novelty and “cleverness” then it would be Plan-9 (or BeOS) the one who shoulda take over. At the end of the day both Linux.and Minix are both following the UNIX model which even at that time it already was “obsolete”. But reality is often more pragmatic
The point was microkernel vs monolith
The Cathedral or the Bazaar?
ESR is an asshat.
I’m a bizarre cathedral fan in my heart though.
Honestly plan9 is neat but it suffers from being incredibly stringy and so does Linux / unix.
There’s some new paradigms out there that probably need to be uncovered. Computers have way more processing capabilities then they did in the 90s
More processing power means new paradigms are less likely to be uncovered, I think. The deficiencies of current designs are obscured, and maybe moot, due to the raw power the processors. There isn’t any real pressure to improve kernel design.
All of the big current kernels (NT, Linux, XNU) are rooted in the i386 era. There’s certainly been a lot of changes in all of them but I don’t know if any have been completely re-architected.
Might have to wait for some kind of completely new processor before we see completely new kernels.
It’s not a processing problem, it’s a interface problem. Somethings are just easier to use or more functional based on how they are built.
Take a look at nixos, the large increase in compute has allowed for smarter package managers that can do complex validation.
Or rust for example and it’s compilers. It’s more expensive to compile then something like c but there’s lots of benefits to its model.
Just because old things are cheap to do doesn’t mean they can’t be advanced. Everything is a give and a take.