bloodline wrote:
Linux is just a kernel... The OS you build on top of it is up to you...
That depends on how you define 'OS'
I think you would be hard pushed to try and build something better now... It provides all the features you could possibly want and runs on just about every CPU available... And you get bug fixes for free :-D
The USSR has had it's very own way of developing software for driving of planes and rockets. They had assemblies of mathematicians and programmers working in a tight organisation.
This is something the West is still struggling with.
With the experience of these scientists, working in such an organisation, they could well make a kernel that runs circles around the Linux kernel, both in terms of performance as well as in functionality.
Or, because of a different approach, it might well be resulting in something different than we traditionally call an OS/Kernel, and can result in a revolution how we use/develop for the computer.
