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Posts on where Open Nexus is heading — an open source operating system on RISC-V hardware, where the owner of a device decides what it may do.
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I don't want to replace Linux.
In fact, I probably couldn't have built Open Nexus OS without Linux. I use Linux every day, and for general-purpose computing it is an extraordinary piece of software.
So whenever I say that I am building a different operating system, I expect the obvious question:
Why didn't you just modify Linux until it did what you wanted?
That question is actually what led me to build this.
In March, we showed you a kernel that could explain itself.
Today, it can show itself.
Three months ago, NEURON was an argument. A set of papers. A microkernel you could measure, but not see. There was nothing on the screen — because there was no screen.
For decades, computing has been divided into artificial categories:
a phone OS here, a desktop OS there, a watch or car system somewhere else.
Each locked into its own ecosystem. Each dependent on proprietary cloud sync.
Each forcing developers to rewrite the same ideas for different silos.
This isn’t just inconvenient.
It is a fundamental design flaw — a brake on progress.