Rabbit Holes I Dive Into Every Now And Then (Alternative Operating Systems Edition)

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2021-06-12 21:00:08

Over the past few years, and as part of my perennial personal quest for a nicer computing experience, I keep finding myself going down a small set of technological rabbit holes, which I’m listing here in an attempt to remind future me that I might already done so too many times.

The list is in rough chronological order, and was actually written on one of these in a lazy Saturday afternoon. I won’t spoil it by telling you which one right away.

Cloud-ready images and absurdly easy bootstrapping of everything Linux has made it so time-intensive in comparison that I haven’t touched it in five years or so. I probably won’t, ever again, but sometimes I wish it had “won”.

I still keep an eye out for Haiku because I think it would make for a brilliant Raspberry Pi desktop OS, but I just don’t see that happening.

I fooled around with Plan9 for long enough to be familiar (had a Raspberry Pi that acted as a network console), as well as its very neat, very self-contained offshoot, Inferno, that I really, really wish had taken off as an embedded OS.