Re: Can you build your own desktop Client?

I'm not suggesting limiting what any of the distro developer teams are
doing.

But the guys working on FREEDOS & DR-DOS know the x86 architecture
they are dealing with, and the result is a more stable, albeit, more
limited OS.

Seems like a developer team that focused on just the x86 for Linux
would have similar success, and quickly gain a share of the x86
market, and the single user desktop. You cant do everything in C;
there are times when assembly produces dramatically faster more robust
code. But you cant use the same assembly for other architectures.

DOS is still developing the single user desktop with extensions now
for flat addressing, long file names, the DJGPP compiler, 32 bit file
structures and code... But I dunno if even Mac & Linux, much less DOS,
can keep up with the proliferation of windoze presentation formats on
the web. There is a planned obsolescence in the synergy between
Microsoft and the hardware OEMs.

A Linux distro designed from the ground up based on the x86 would be
more competitive with windows, which is also designed from the ground
up based on the x86. And the place to start that is with a single user
desktop client and just the installation of the kernel and
bootstrapping needed to add apps one at a time to see how they all
work together. Keep it simple stupid.
.

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