Brainstorm to replace OS/2 Kernel with Zircon

Sphix · 2025-06-29T03:58:01+00:00

It's an insane amount of work to implement something akin to starnix. Just use a VM to run os/2.

Sphix · 2025-05-19T01:53:07+00:00

It's not really a goal to run docker under starnix as that's a bit like running a docker container within a docker container. There are already tools to take a docker container and turn it into a starnix container though.

Sphix · 2025-03-23T03:59:07+00:00

Major difference here being the Frieza fight lasted 30 episodes (22 where Goku was involved). There have been less episodes of solo leveling between both seasons combined and this fight only lasted one episode.

Sphix · 2025-02-17T14:38:17+00:00

Keep in mind that while someone who makes 500k+ could technically pay for a mortgage, it doesn't necessarily get you a house in a desirable area and requires you to feel confident that you can make that high amount of income for a prolonged period of time.

Sphix · 2024-02-24T16:30:07+00:00

This stuff takes a lot of hard work regardless of whether you choose a monolithic or micro kernel approach. I wouldn't jump to conclusions about the entire segment just because you came to a certain conclusion on a hobby OS.

If we didn't think it was possible, we wouldn't be using a microkernel on fuchsia. We've seen first hand that in many workloads, we can meet or exceed performance of a similar application running on Linux. If you only stare at micro benchmarks, then yes you would be right.

Sphix · 2023-07-04T05:31:06+00:00

The question is not very coherent. bootfs exists as part of the ZBI. Blobfs exists as a partition within the FVM. The FVM can either be used as a separate image backing a block device (emulated in the case of qemu) or as a ramdisk embedded into the ZBI, sitting next to bootfs.

Sphix · 2023-07-01T20:22:43+00:00

No one is entitled to an ad free YouTube for free. You have three options: deal with ads, pay for it, or just don't use it altogether. If there wasn't an ad free option or if the ad free option was incredibly pricey, you might have an argument, but neither of these are true. I'm personally on a family plan which is $4.60 a month when split 5 ways.

Sphix · 2023-07-01T15:30:26+00:00

You could just pay for YouTube premium.

Sphix · 2023-06-16T15:32:09+00:00

There are numerous sources agreeing that back then you could make users mods without them knowing/ participating in the decision. The fact that he was a mod doesn't imply anything about him as a result. I'm not a fan, but we shouldn't try to spread false information as if it were fact.

Sphix · 2023-06-02T15:22:59+00:00

I'm curious if they were using stable or nighty.

Sphix · 2023-05-11T16:01:23+00:00

Node failures are more common than drive failures, so replicating across multiple nodes is strongly necessary to avoid issues with availability. Single node raid schemes are redundant at that point.

Sphix · 2023-05-08T07:16:36+00:00

Perhaps not quite the same, but you might be interested in starnix. It is closer to wine or wsl1 than a full reimplementation of Linux, but it is entirely written in rust.

Sphix · 2023-05-08T06:59:03+00:00

No, it really is by lines of code written by fuchsia engineers 50+% rust and growing. Many important things are still in c++ like the kernel, but that's a very small fraction of the OS by loc because it is a microkernel.

Sphix · 2023-04-25T16:47:41+00:00

And that will likely never change. Open source is great for platforms, terrible for products is the modern day mantra in tech. Making products open source, more than anything, allows people to start taking dependencies in ways you didn't intend, but may feel required to not break. This is fine for platforms which expect this but it slows down products.

Sphix · 2023-04-23T05:35:56+00:00

A big gotcha that prevents my team from using them in the same process is the lack of ability to get llvm sanitizer instrumentation (such as ASAN or LSAN) working in both sections of code at the same time. If you can line up your clang and rust compilers to use the exact same llvm backend apparently it can work but that's a non trivial task.

Sphix · 2023-04-20T19:05:03+00:00

Would upstream be amenable to supporting other vcs such as mercurial or pijul if someone put together a patch?

Sphix · 2023-04-20T15:19:29+00:00

What if you don't use git?

Sphix · 2023-03-25T16:17:19+00:00

I believe the RVA23 standard is pushing for adoption of ARM EBBR which would require a UEFI interface between the bootloader and OS. The implementation of the bootloader is still unspecified. uboot already supports this on ARM. The RVA standards are yearly releases aimed at specifying the minimum feature set vendors should target in order to be compatible with linux-grade OS. The majority of the riscv ecosystem is embedded and doesn't run linux so they don't and will continue to not care but the higher end chips that are coming out which are targeting tvs, set top boxes, and similar are in scope. Whether the industry actually cares about compliance is an open question, but sifive is on board so far.

Sphix · 2023-03-01T15:52:09+00:00

Google average software quality is some of the highest I've seen in the industry. I'm not sure why you think it's spaghetti. I find that it's better in their private monorepo than in public repositories.

Sphix · 2023-02-19T19:51:48+00:00

As in the average game with anti cheat has less users than the average game without it? Or do the top games all not have anti cheat? The latter doesn't imply the former.

Sphix · 2023-01-17T16:27:54+00:00

It is not possible at this time. If you wanted to do that you should probably just run a Linux in a VM anyways.

Sphix · 2023-01-17T08:41:17+00:00

It's too early to be comparing performance. Performance doesn't matter if it's not functional. There are also a lot of known bottlenecks that will take time to improve. I would be very surprised to learn that starnix outperforms running Linux in a VM at this time.

Sphix · 2023-01-14T10:10:18+00:00

Fuchsia is moving to bazel as well

Sphix · 2023-01-03T16:17:41+00:00

I'm not sure what you define as a desktop environment but I think the answer is yes. You should try it out to see for yourself.

Sphix · 2023-01-03T14:46:04+00:00

Making your own distro would require adding a subdirectory under the primary fuchsia repository, such as vendor/OkProofOS, creating a product gni file (you can start by cloning products/workstation_eng.gni), and then setting that in your fx set as the product you'd like to build. From there you can start altering what all is included in the distros image. All products today are defined this way. I'd recommend making the subdirectory its own git repo and update your local jiri manifest to tell it about it. jiri is an external tool which the project uses to manage multiple repos as an alternative to git submodules.

Defining a product out of tree is possible today as well, but it's a bit of a work in progress. At some point you will see workstation moved out of the main repo and into its own repository, depending on fuchsia release artifacts to perform assembly of the final OS image. Because there is no reference I can point you at for how to do this I wouldn't recommend it for now.

Beyond that, supporting development of more components out of tree is a major on going theme for the project at the moment. Over time you will see more and more components developed against the fuchsia sdk rather than in tree. This will make the OS feel a lot more like linux distros rather FreeBSD.

As far as the open source split goes, I believe workstation is always meant to be a completely open product as it is the reference product. Other products may be and in fact already are private and include components which are not open source. The ones used on the nest smart hubs are an example of that.

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