Very quickly they'll find themselves with most packages frozen to old versions, including the kernel itself.
Shipping them full of bugs which LLMs already fixed upstream.
Fortunately, as it is an open source project, if anyone actually cares about the distribution, they'll fork it and continue advancing it using modern tools.
Well, hypothetically speaking, as you would need a complete stack down to Vulkan for the game itself on this machine, and we still would need to sandbox the guest machine, but apart from that nothing speaks against a thin wrapper, that passes through native RISC-V instructions to the host machine. So while it doesn't as of now, it may in the future.
>Weren't there rumours that intelligence agencies have been using microkernel operating systems for decades?
Governments, military, aviation, space.
For a good portion of the usage, the people involved cannot even talk about it. But sometimes it's possible. A surprising amount of real world use showed up in talks in seL4 summit 2026[0].
That's physically almost impossible. Even if the crystal sheet were to drop off the mounts it would have to do something electrically hard to explain to cause a short. The contact areas are usually the only conducting parts on the crystal itself. Failing open is easy for the exact same reason: if the crystal is mechanically damaged that will usually dislodge one or both of the contact areas. This is because those are the only places where something touches the crystal to give it as much freedom to vibrate as possible, any kind of further constraint would impede function.
Can you give an example of a point in their rationale that they'll "come around" on, and why? I mentioned it because it looks solid to me.
I don't think they'll be forked to irrelevance. Even if I put aside my skepticism of the quality or longevity of AI-assisted projects, I don't think there's a bigger audience for a Nura that's less principled on the issues they mentioned.
>VCD's look like standard iso9660 filesystems, but they are not. Attempting to use the filesystem entries for other than pointers to the start of files will result in pointing off the disk due to invalid data.
I wonder what they were thinking, whoever designed the VCD.
Similar to Audio CDs. Considering that that was a time when these were more likely being played in an actual hardware player than put into a PC, I don't think the choice was necessarily wrong. Also, I think for CDs with a file system on them, the error correction was necessary, thus reducing content size.
Neat. 3MB would have been insane. That year, my family bought the 512KB trapdoor expansion for A500, so that we could play Monkey Island. It was every bit worth it!
Of course, the extra 512KB made our Amiga that much more useful, and eventually we did the solder-jumper change to make it chip, as our A500 is a rev6 with the 1MB ECS Agnus.
I still have this A500; now it also has 8mb fast on cpu slot, an ECS denise and a 68010.
Cool! I never knew anyone who did a 68010 upgrade back in the day.
I also had a 30 meg hard drive on my A500 (Supra, which included the RAM expansion.) It was a pretty decent Amiga setup. I taught myself C on that machine (Lattice / SAS C)
Shipping them full of bugs which LLMs already fixed upstream.
Fortunately, as it is an open source project, if anyone actually cares about the distribution, they'll fork it and continue advancing it using modern tools.
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