Personally, I'd like to see something using the Heirloom Tools userspace. Heirloom *roff, in particular, is miles ahead of GNU (especially when dealing with fonts) while also being much lighter weight. The only bit of GNU that I'd keep in my "ideal" OS would be GCC, which still produces better output than Clang.

Mike

On Feb 26, 2017 12:33 PM, "Steve Nickolas" <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Michael Kjörling wrote:

On 26 Feb 2017 12:15 -0500, from ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie):

Of course, he got run over by LINUX along the way.

...and even today, while the GNU userland sees reasonable use (just
about every Linux distribution targetting the desktop or server niches
use it, except for the few minimalistic ones that rely primarily on
Busybox, so it's pretty hard to run Linux and not GNU), GNU Hurd lives
a life of obscurity and few even know what it is, let alone knows
anyone who uses it for anything even half-way serious.

I've thought of implementing a system using musl, clang and the Solaris userland on Linux just to prove that not all Linux is GNU/Linux. (As if Android doesn't always prove that.)

-uso.