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I’m extrapolating but this would hardly be “misrepresenting” his position.

I don't know where that image is from, so you are working on information I do not have, but still, the first "paragraph" sets up a possibility reinforced by an anecdote in the second. It's not asserting that only 5 contributors could re-create the entirety of the Linux kernel in 5 years.

I very much took his argument as an open-source project with a small number of leaders, with the help of the larger OSS community, could make a mature subset of a Linux compatible kernel in a small amount of time (years)

nanos wrote a quite reasonable subset of the linux kernel in C using less than 5 people at a time on average and somewhat less than 5 years. this can totally be done.

https://github.com/nanovms/nanos

> A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment

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https://github.com/nanovms/nanos/blob/master/CHARTER.md

> 1. Security:

> Nanos aims to be a much more secure system than Linux. It does this through several thrusts. Not having the notion of users, running a single process per vm, and limiting the amount of code that is incorporated into each vm.

> 2. Minimalist:

> KISS. As Nanos is not intended to be ran on bare metal we strive to keep the core as simple as possible.

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https://github.com/nanovms

They patched erlang and gpu-nvidia to work with Nanos

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https://ops.city/

A product based on Nanos

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